Question

I am very new to Git and I have a slight problem.

In SVN [this feels like an Only Fools and Horses story by uncle Albert..”during the war…”] when I wanted to update a production site with my latest changes, I’d do a diff in TSVN and export all the changed/added files between two revisions. As you can imagine, it was easy to get those files to a production site afterwards.

However, it seems like I’m unable to find an “export changed files” option in Git. I can do a diff and see the changes, I can get a list of files, but I can’t actually export them. Is there a reasonable way to do this? Am I missing something simple?

Just to clarify once again, I need to export all the changes between two specific commits.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

How do you want to export them? You say you already have a list; what more do you want? Supposing you’re getting your list with git diff --name-only ...

git archive --output=<file> HEAD $(git diff --name-only ...)

tar -czf <file> $(git diff --name-only ...)

cp --parents $(git diff --name-only ...) <export-directory>

Something like that?

Or you could even use the diff itself – it can be applied with git apply (or even patch, I believe).