Git via Email Getting Started

Published: August 1, 2020

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Simple way to that is via:

To create a patch: git format-patch <branch-you-want-to-send-patch-to> -o <patches-folder>

A patch file is created, for me it was patches/0001-second.sh.patch, below is a sample patch.

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From d84a8864289616c462827fead5351fb66b86cc3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sumit Murari <sumit.murari@emailaddr.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 23:15:12 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] second.sh

---
second.sh | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
create mode 100644 second.sh

diff --git a/second.sh b/second.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e019be0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/second.sh
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+second
--
2.24.0

To apply a patch: git am
- am is for apply mailbox or Apply a series of patches from a mailbox

Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
It will help me to improve/learn.