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## how-to-git-patch-diff.md

      
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                How to generate and apply patches with git? — First published in fullweb.io issue #33
              
          
    How to generate and apply patches with git?

It sometimes happen you need change code on a machine from which you cannot push to the repo.
You’re ready to copy/paste what diff outputs to your local working copy.
You think there must be a better way to proceed and you’re right. It’s a simple 2 steps process:
1. Generate the patch:
git diff &gt; some-changes.patch

  
## pr.md

      
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                Checkout github pull requests locally
              
          
    Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:
[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this: