Git command for applying a series of patches from a mailbox.
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Using Git am when outlook is involved
I am using linux in a virtual machine but my host is windows with outlook installed. Currently when I receive emails containing git patches they pop up in my outlook.
How do I apply these patches? They are not sent as attachments, they are sent…
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Reset "branch ahead" when using a bundle
In my current workflow, I get a git bundle, which I unpack:
$ git bundle unpack new.bundle code
and then I add patches to it:
$ git am *.patch
git log shows that the patches were committed; however, when I run git status, it says Your branch is…
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Create patch or diff file from git repository for target directory and apply it to another different git repository with different directory
Here is similar question.
git format-patch -k R1..R2
But I want only commits from current directory and removing relative path or change path at all
For example by doing:
git format-patch -k R1..R2 .
I get patches with…
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Apply series of patches using specific patch number
I have set of patches, for e.g as below.
0001-first-commit.patch
0002-second-commit.patch
0003-third-commit.patch
0004-4th-commit.patch
0005-fifth-commit.patch
What is the best way to apply patches from given patch number up to end. I mean can we…
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git am: Patch format detection failed. git apply also fails
I'm trying to learn git patching, so I set up a test repo and made a few commits.
I then created a patch: git format-patch -1 HEAD --stdout > changes.patch
Next, I checked out a new branch and tried to use changes.patch: git am .\changes.patch. It…
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Unwanted stuff written in file when cherry-picked
Recently I got to know about cherry-pick command in git, and it turns out to be a useful command. I learnt from the resources on how to use it to cherry-pick contents from other's repo. After I used the command, the contents got cherry-picked from…
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How to merge two patches(git log) of different repository
I have a use case where I wanted to merge some sub directories of two repositories in a new repo.
For this, I have created patch for both the repositories for the directories I need using
git log --pretty=email --patch-with-stat --reverse…
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Troubles with git am when applied in a different repository
I have two Git repositories:
/api/pom.xml
/jpa/pom.xml
/mailbox/api/pom.xml
/mailbox/jpa/pom.xml
/protocols/api/pom.xml
The second repository have a mailbox folder that has the exact same structure
that the first Git repository. Due to workflow…
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Is it possible to accept pull request from a cloned/forked repo?
Is it possible to accept pull request from a cloned repo?
Example ( fork of repo ):
Repo #1: https://github.com/acme/original_project
Repo #2: https://github.com/blah/original_project ( fork )
Pull Request Limbo:
Repo #1 has new pull request but…
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