Creating patches from branches

Instead of counting the number of commits you need to make patches for, you can create patches by specifying the target branch when running the format-patch command.

Getting ready

We'll use the same repository as in the previous example:

$ git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Git-Version-Control-Cookbook-Second-Edition_offline-sharing.git
$ cd Git-Version-Control-Cookbook-Second-Edition_offline-sharing

Make sure we have the develop branch checked out:

$ git checkout develop

How to do it...

We'll pretend that we have been working on the develop branch and have made some commits. Now, we need to format patches for all those commits so that we can send them to the repository maintainer or carry them to another machine.

Let's see the commits on develop, not on master:

$ git log --oneline master..develop
583225a (HEAD -> develop) Adds functionality to prime-test a range of numbers
f6c5713 Adds Makefile for easy building
d00ffc0 Move print functionality of is_prime...