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Louise
Louise

Reputation: 6753

Make patch or git diff of Github issue commits?

In the following Github issue are there 35 commits

How can I get a copy of those commits as patches or git diff's, so I can keep a local copy?

From what I can tell, not all commits have been accepted, but I like to have a copy of them all anyway.

This question is different from this, as the commits in that answer have all been committed.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 515

Answers (1)

match
match

Reputation: 11070

You can usually do this by adding the word .patch or .diff onto the end of the url, i.e.:

https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/overleaf/web/pull/103.diff

However it appears that (I think) because the original repository isn't present, this doesn't work.

This also precludes manually cloning the original repo and then creating a patch from there on the command-line.

However you can get access to the branch containing a PR by doing the following:

git clone https://github.com/sharelatex/web-sharelatex
cd web-sharelatex
# edit .git/config - change the 'origin' fetch entry to:
  fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*
git fetch -a
git checkout remotes/origin/pr/103

You can now get access to all the commits in that PR and generate patches etc.

Upvotes: 4

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