git-rebase-patch (1) Linux Manual Page
git-rebase-patch – Rebases a patch
Synopsis
git-rebase-patch <patch-file>Description
Given you have a patch that doesn’t apply to the current HEAD, but you know it applied to some commit in the past, git-rebase-patch will help you find that commit and do a rebase.Options
- <patch-file>
- The patch to be applied.
Examples
Executing$ git rebase-patch test.patch
could give you something like that:
Trying to find a commit the patch applies to…
Patch applied to dbcf408dd26 as 7dc8b23ae1a
First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it…
Applying: test.patch
Using index info to reconstruct a base tree…
Falling back to patching base and 3-way merge…
Auto-merging README.txt
Then your last commit has the changes of the patch and is named test.patch.