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Thilo
Thilo

Reputation: 262464

Download Github pull request as unified diff

How can I download the changes contained in a Github pull request as a unified diff?

Upvotes: 390

Views: 112156

Answers (4)

Daniel T
Daniel T

Reputation: 1169

There is another alternative to the related solution. It answers the original question and uses git fetch and FETCH_HEAD.

git fetch origin pull/921/head
cat .git/FETCH_HEAD
# Then either of
git diff `git merge-base FETCH_HEAD HEAD`..FETCH_HEAD > diff.diff # Downloads the unified diff as asked in the original question
git merge FETCH_HEAD # Applies the diff

Upvotes: 0

Bill Hollings
Bill Hollings

Reputation: 2374

To get the PR changes into your local repo in an staged but uncommitted state, so you can review:

git pull origin pull/123/head --no-commit

And to generate a patch file from that:

git diff --cached > pr123.diff

Upvotes: 6

Simone Carletti
Simone Carletti

Reputation: 176352

To view a commit as a diff/patch file, just add .diff or .patch to the end of the URL, for example:

Upvotes: 715

thakis
thakis

Reputation: 5889

Somewhat related, to let git download pull request 123 and patch it into mylocalbranch locally, run:

git checkout -b mylocalbranch
git pull origin pull/921/head

Upvotes: 63

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