How do you take a git diff file, and apply it to a local branch that is a copy of the same repository?
Copy the diff file to the root of your repository, and then do:
git apply yourcoworkers.diff
More information about the apply
command is available on its man page.
By the way: A better way to exchange whole commits by file is the combination of the commands git format-patch
on the sender and then git am
on the receiver, because it also transfers the authorship info and the commit message.
If the patch application fails and if the commits the diff was generated from are actually in your repo, you can use the -3
option of apply
that tries to merge in the changes.
It also works with Unix pipe as follows:
git diff d892531 815a3b5 | git apply