Recently I had to create patch from a local commit to apply a totally different branch and on a different clone. Obviously I couldn’t use git cherry-pick so I tried and found out to create a patch from a GIT commit.
It all comes down to using git format-patch command and the patch shell command :
create patch from last commit (local or not)
git format-patch -1 HEAD
# creates a patch file in the root directory of the GIT clone : lest say some_file.patchapply patch
patch -p1 < [path_to]/some_file.patchsource : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13192806/how-to-generate-a-git-patch-with-a-local-commit