Hi i have one doubt when creating patch files. if consider a file a.txt it contains This is a simple file. i added to git and commit it. Next i changed the file as This is a slightly more complex file. Again i added to git and commit it. Now if i create a patch by using the below commands git format-patch -n HEAD git show HEAD > somepatch.patch the contents in somepatch.patch are shown below commit 0e1d77b66e708580a07530e8c1bf20546a701c6f Author: <UserName> <xxxxxxxxx@gmail.com> Date: Tue Jun 3 22:02:57 2014 +0530 Next Commit diff --git a/a.txt b/a.txt index 76e499a..c341c1c 100644 --- a/a.txt +++ b/a.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ this is a -simple +slightly more complex file file. My doubt is how to create patch file which contains the modifications only i.e lines with "+" only why because for example initially if a file contains 1000 rows after i changed 2 lines but in the patch file it is taking entire 1000+2 lines.So is there any way to generate patch with only modified lines? Thank you