git-extract-patches

#!/bin/bash

# Extracts git commits that contain a certain text (for example ticket number) in the commit message to .patch files
# License: https://github.com/amenk/SelfScripts/blob/master/LICENSE.md

echo "Enter string to grep in the git log message, for example a ticket number:";
read SEARCH

COMMITS=`git log --topo-order --reverse --no-color --pretty=oneline | grep "$SEARCH" | cut -f1 -d" "`

NO=1

for COMMIT in $COMMITS
do
	git format-patch -1 $COMMIT --start-number=$NO
 	NO=$(($NO+1))
done