---
name: "git-rebase-patch"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "git-extras"
version: "7.3.0-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/git-rebase-patch"
---

# git-rebase-patch(1)

Rebases a patch

## NAME

**git-rebase-patch** - Rebases a patch

## SYNOPSIS

**git-rebase-patch** \<patch-file\>

## 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

- \<patch-file\>

  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 \<*niklas.fiekas@tu-clausthal.de*\>

## REPORTING BUGS

\<*https://github.com/tj/git-extras/issues*\>

## SEE ALSO

\<*https://github.com/tj/git-extras*\>