What is a Git patch file

Question

I have been doing some research into this and i have not gotten a clear cut answer. Any relevant documentation and information about this would be helpful thank you.

Answer 1

When you’re working together, you will face a problem where you want to take the only changes you’ve made and make a pull request with those changes.
Git support a .patch file which contain the changes you have been made.
With the generated .patch file, you can see the changes and the difference with the remote branch. The file can be applied to a certain branch if you want to merge your only change with the remote branch.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8279602/what-is-a-patch-in-git-version-control/8279647#8279647
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9339429/what-does-cherry-picking-a-commit-with-git-mean/9339460#9339460

Answer 2

You are welcome friend! 😊
I hope it will help you!👍

Answer 3

Thank you Danijel Ivanović i will take a look at these and make the determination. Reason i ask is i am doing work at Top Coder and some projects require this.