GIT-PASTE(1)

💅 git-paste — bestie's guide to yeeting patches at a pastebin ✨

okay so git-paste is a lil command from Git Extras, and its whole personality is: take your patches, drop them on a pastebin, so you can paste that link into a chat and everyone can read your diff without you copy-pasting 400 lines into Discord. group-chat main character energy, fr fr. 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

git-paste <git format-patch options>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

She sends patches to a pastebin for chat conversations, using pastebinit under the hood. The syntax highlighting gets set to 'diff', so your patch actually looks like a patch and not like a wall of sad grey text. slay. 🌈

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• <git format-patch options> — all these options get passed STRAIGHT through to git format-patch. no filtering, no meddling, she just forwards them. and if you give her zero arguments? she hands @{u} to git format-patch for you. cute of her, honestly. 🫶

👑 CONFIGURATION 👑

so the pastebinit software is the one picking the pastebin site — it goes and chooses the most appropriate one for your operating system, iykyk. and if you wanna point it at a different site? the pastebinit docs have all the deets on how to configure that:

<https://manpages.debian.org/pastebinit>

🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

Pastebin the patches between your current branch and its upstream — both of these do the same thing:

$ git paste
$ git paste @{u}

Pastebin just the latest commit:

$ git paste -1

Pastebin the latest three commits:

$ git paste -3

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Written by Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net> — thank you king, we appreciate you. 🙏

🔥 REPORTING BUGS 🔥

found a bug? not the vibe. go tell them here:

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

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

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

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💀 reminder bestie: this is a GIT-PASTE(1) page from the Git Extras manual, dated May 2026. that's the whole thing. now go paste your patches and be iconic. periodt. ⭐💅🦋