Create and apply a patch — AI Prompts for Git

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Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

I have staged changes I want to share as a patch file. Create a patch from HEAD~1..HEAD and save it…

I have staged changes I want to share as a patch file. Create a patch from HEAD~1..HEAD and save it as fix-auth.patch in the repo root, then show the command to apply that patch in another clone and verify it applies cleanly without committing.

Improve — make it easier to accept

Before I send this patch to the security reviewer, make it easy to apply and inspect: produce an…

Before I send this patch to the security reviewer, make it easy to apply and inspect: produce an email-friendly patch file showing author, date, and exact diff, add a short header summarizing the functional change and risk, and list the apply command and a fallback if the patch fails due to context lines.

Become — change the pattern

I often create patches that colleagues cannot apply because their trees have diverged. Where am I…

I keep sending patches that don't apply cleanly across forks

I often create patches that colleagues cannot apply because their trees have diverged. Where am I losing time and trust, and what habitual change (how I create patches, what base I use, or a brief pre-send checklist) would make my patches reliably apply across forks and save rounds of back-and-forth?

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