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I have a patch that contains a lot of changes that I would like to split into multiple commits and potentially modify some of the changes.
I want to apply this patch to my working directory and then manually commit the changes. Is it possible to apply a patch to the working directory in git?
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GIT patch or GIT diff is used to share the changes made by you to others without pushing it to main branch of the repository. This way other people can check your changes from the GIT patch file you made and suggest the necessary corrections.
Right-click the item in the Solution Explorer and select Subversion > Apply Patch. Open the patch file. TortoiseMerge runs to merge the changes from the patch file with your working copy.
git apply takes a patch (e.g. the output of git diff ) and applies it to the working directory (or index, if --index or --cached is used). git am takes a mailbox of commits formatted as an email messages (e.g. the output of git format-patch ) and applies them to the current branch.
You can use git apply which applies a patch:
git apply < patchname.patch This does not create any commits. In fact, without any options the git apply command doesn't even need to have a Git repository. It just applies patches to files.
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