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title: "Sharing Specific Commits with Git Bundle"
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date: 2020-03-20T16:22:01-04:00
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tags: ["Git"]
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If you have a large software repository, sometimes you only want to share part of it with a group. You can accomplish this by using `git bundle`
## Creating the Bundle
To bundle all the commits from the development branch to the current head,
```bash
git bundle create repo.bundle development..HEAD feature_branch
```
This will place these commits into a branch called `feature_branch` in `repo.bundle` .
## Fetching from bundle
On the other side, we need to make sure that we have all the commits up to the `development` branch synchronized. Then we can fetch the commits from the bundle:
```bash
git fetch /path/to/repo.bundle feature_branch:feature_branch
```
The left side of the colon is what you want to grab from the bundle, the right side is the branch to put the commits to.
```bash
git checkout feature_branch
```
