Either i’m going nuts or nobody likes/liked this feature, but a long time ago i used to use subversion with sourceforge system. I had the ability to create full file patches for commits done.
I cannot figure out anyway to create these in git, all i want is the files that were changed from XX commit and only those files in their entirety so that i could hand them off to someone/upload just those files to a location.
As it currently stands i’m stuck reuploading the entire project because i have nothing that tells me what was changed. Since we’re also on a shared web host there is no way to get git on the server without upgrading to more expensive package.
I’ve tried
git archive --output=/home/username/temp.zip <commit id>
which put everything into a zip nicely but it did just that, it put everything. Also tried a variation of format-patch but that didn’t seem to work.
It seems that I misunderstood what you wanted in my other answer.
git archivecan take a list of paths to include in the archive, so you could do:If your filenames contain surprising characters, though, it would be safer to do: