Re: How can I download a git commit as a diff patch?

From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Sep 30, 2009, 21:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20090930210745.GC22159@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
In-Reply-To: <200909302240.17729.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:40:16PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> You can specify parent explicitely: "git diff <rev>^1 <rev>" for diff
> to first parent, e.g. "git diff HEAD^ HEAD".
> 
> Just so you know that this single diff is not enough to redo a merge.
> It is only partial information.

Yes certainly in some cases. Often you can pick specific patches and a few patches they depend on to try and fix something, but for bigger changes it doesn't work. I am actually surprised it has been this long before I ever saw one of these combined diff's. I must have been lucky so far.

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> BTW. there is also "git diff-tree -m <rev>") to show diff to *all*
> parents at once:
> 
>     -m    By default, `git-diff-tree --stdin` does not show differences for
>           merge commits. With this flag, it shows differences to that commit
>           from all of its parents. See also `-c`.

I will have to try that one out.

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Len Sorensen