How do I simply create a patch from my latest git commit?
In general,
git format-patch -n HEAD^
(check help for the many options), although it's really for mailing them. For a single commit just
git show HEAD > some-patch0001.patch
will give you a useable patch.
Taking from @Useless answer, you can also use the general form with no parameters for the last commit and put it into a file with:
git format-patch HEAD^ --stdout > patchfile.patch
Or, being cleaner for windows users when carets have to be escaped by doubling them:
git format-patch HEAD~1 --stdout > patchfile.patch
another way, if have the commit id of that particular commit, you can use,
git format-patch -1 {commit-id}