Git: Create a patch from a list of certain files [duplicate]

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I want to create a patch from a list of files. For example I have 10 commits which modify 4 files. I want to create a patch that includes changes of 3 of those 4 files during those 10 commits. How can I do that?

Answer 1

This worked for me:

git format-patch -10 -- file1.txt -- file2.txt -- file3.txt