How do patches work in Git?

Question

I\'m new to Git, but familiar with SVN. As a test I made a repository in a local directory with git init. Then I cloned the empty repository (over SSH using 127

Answer 1

Using GitHub patch

1. Add .patch to a commit URL to get the patch file, example

   github.com/git/git/commit/b6b3b6a.patch

2. Patch the original file like this:

   git am /tmp/b6b3b6a.patch
   

Using GitHub diff

1. Add .diff to a commit URL to get the patch file, example

   github.com/git/git/commit/b6b3b6a.diff

2. Patch the original file like this:

   git apply -p0 /tmp/b6b3b6a.diff
   

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