git format-patch

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Prepare `.patch` files. Useful when emailing commits elsewhere. See also: `git am`.

Examples (3)

Create an auto-named `.patch` file for all the unpushed commits

git format-patch origin

Write a `.patch` file for all the commits between 2 revisions to `stdout`

git format-patch revision_1..revision_2

Write a `.patch` file for the `n` latest commits

git format-patch -n