git-rebase-patch(1) -- Rebases a patch SYNOPSIS git-rebase-patch DESCRIPTION Given you have a patch that doesn't apply to the current HEAD, but you know it applied to some commit in the past, git-rebase-patch will help you find that commit and do a rebase. OPTIONS : The patch to be applied. EXAMPLES Executing $ git rebase-patch test.patch could give you something like that: Trying to find a commit the patch applies to... Patch applied to dbcf408dd26 as 7dc8b23ae1a First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it... Applying: test.patch Using index info to reconstruct a base tree... Falling back to patching base and 3-way merge... Auto-merging README.txt Then your last commit has the changes of the patch and is named test.patch. AUTHOR Written by Niklas Fiekas <> REPORTING BUGS <> SEE ALSO <>