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Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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[solved] How to convert a single git commit into a patch-file ?

Usecase :

bullet3 3.07 was recently released[1]
Unfortunately the version in the release tarball is still 3.05

https://github.com/bulletphysics/bullet … d091d987fa updates everything related to the version .

I could use git to download the sourcecode from that specific commit, but would prefer using the released file plus a patch .
Using git send-email one can send patches, but there doesn't seem to be a counterpart that allows to retrieve commits as patches.

Does anyone know a way to achieve this ?

[1]
https://github.com/bulletphysics/bullet3/releases

Edit:

The methods in the replies all work.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2020-11-28 23:30:55)

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ayekat

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Re: [solved] How to convert a single git commit into a patch-file ?

I'm not 100% sure if I understood the problem correctly, but you can append `.diff` to that URL there to get the raw diff file, or `.patch` to also get the commit information (date, author, commit message, …).

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Alad

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Re: [solved] How to convert a single git commit into a patch-file ?

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch

git format-patch -1 e32fc59c88a3908876949c6f2665e8d091d987fa

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progandy

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Re: [solved] How to convert a single git commit into a patch-file ?

To get the patch from github without downloading the repository append .patch to the URL:

https://github.com/bulletphysics/bullet … 87fa.patch

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: [solved] How to convert a single git commit into a patch-file ?

Thank you all, patch retrieved and aur package is updated .

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