How to download a single commit-diff from GitHub?
I would like to get a single commit (let's call it ${SHA}
) from GitHub via the web-interface.
For example, something like:
$ git clone http://github.com/foo/bar
$ cd bar
$ git format-patch -o .. ${SHA}~1..${SHA}
$ cd ..
$ rm -rf bar
...but without having to clone the entire repository (the repo in question is large).
Obviously GitHub can display the diff of a given commit via the web interface, but how I can extract that into a (unified) diff-file (ideally, with the commit-message intact)?
Solution 1:
OK, found the answer myself.
Adding .patch
(or .diff
) to the commit-URL will give a nice patch:
https://github.com/foo/bar/commit/${SHA}.patch
Thanks to Ten Things You Didn't Know Git And GitHub Could Do...
Solution 2:
I found I had to add a / at the end, i.e.
https://github.com/foo/bar/commit/${SHA}.patch/