Git patches

• Useful if want to save current local staged changes instead of commiting them

  • why

    • want to give to another dev to work on, esp for remote pairing

    • Commiting and pushing might lead to unfinished code being used by another dev

    • The CI build might fail, people will not be able to checkout code until build passes

Via Intellij

• Very simple, just use the gui

Command line

If you haven't yet commited the changes, then:

git diff > mypatch.patch

But sometimes it happens that part of the stuff you're doing are new files that are untracked and won't be in your git diff output. So, one way to do a patch is to stage everything for a new commit (git add each file, or just git add .) but don't do the commit, and then:

git diff --cached > mypatch.patch

Add the 'binary' option if you want to add binary files to the patch (e.g. mp3 files):

git diff --cached --binary > mypatch.patch

Can also use // better to use

git diff HEAD > file_name.patch

You can later apply the patch:

git apply mypatch.patch

Note: You can also use --staged as a synonym of --cached.

Creating patches for commits

Issues