Create a patch by comparing a specific branch on the remote with a specific local branch

Question

I\'ve been working with git for a few weeks, but now I\'d like to contribute back to this open source project. I\'ve merged my work with the latest, remote by pulling editing ou

Answer 1

Use git format-patch origin/master. This creates a patch file for each commit on your checked out branch, which is not in origin/master.

To have one file instead of multiple files you can use

git format-patch master --stdout > mypatch.patch

Answer 2

Use this to create one file containing all commits in your current branch that are not in the master branch:

git format-patch master --stdout > mypatch.patch