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How can I use the 'diff -u' command to generate patches that can be applied to a 'git/sv', repository? I am intending to run the diff command on a 'git-svn' repo.

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If you're generating the patch on a Git repo (which a git-svn repo counts as), and planning to apply it to another Git/git-svn repo, then you should probably use Git's regular patch utilities (e.g. git diff and git format-patch).

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A good explanation I found on this page under the heading "Formatting patches for Subversion ". That is exactly what I was looking for

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