Formated patches

Rationale

• Export the change in Unix mailbox format

• Can do certain setup so that everytime it's generated, it will be automatically emailed

• Include the diff and commit messages

• One file per commit by default

Command

• git format-patch <commit-1>...<commit-2> for a range of commit

• git format-patch -l <commit> for single commit

  • If -l is ommited, it will get the range to HEAD

• git format-patch <branch> for between the diverge point with a different branch to the current HEAD

• with -o <output-dir> will save the files to a destination

• with --stdout > output.patch will save a single file