git-apply – Tarik Billa

When applying a patch is there any way to resolve conflicts?

November 15, 2022 by Tarik

To generate your patch do the following: git format-patch –stdout first_commit^..last_commit > changes.patch Now when you are ready to apply the patches: git am -3 < changes.patch the -3 will do a three-way merge if there are conflicts. At this point you can do a git mergetool if you want to go to a gui … Read more

Create patch or diff file from git repository and apply it to another different git repository

October 6, 2022 by Tarik

You can just use git diff to produce a unified diff suitable for git apply: git diff tag1..tag2 > mypatch.patch You can then apply the resulting patch with: git apply mypatch.patch