Patch

Interactive Patch Staging

• If you have modified a file in multiple places but want to only commit some of your changes git add has a patch option that allows you to interactively choose which parts of the file to stage.

git add [<files>] -p

Creating and Applying Patches

• Similar to patch git can be used to make patches

• The benefit when working in a git repository is that filenames/paths are registered in git history and do not need to be specified

• To create a diff

git diff [<files>] > mypatch.patch

• To apply a diff

git apply mypatch.patch

• To revert a diff

git apply -R mypatch.patch