Hi, I think you're still on master when you make your changes. git maintains your *local copy* of master as 'master', whereas the original, unchanged upstream branch master is still available as 'origin/master'. You create a patch against a different branch, and since you are on 'master' which differs from 'origin/master', it works like you described. If you first create a branch on your side and switch to it before making changes, you can run format-patch against your local copy of master as well. That is,
#+begin_src sh git branch local git checkout local # make your changes git commit -m "Your message" git format-patch master #+end_src ^^^^^^ This is also the procedure described in http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html#sec-4 under *Sending commits, and it should work fine this way. philipp On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 01:40:55PM +0200, Sebastien Vauban wrote: > Hello, > > Just a Git question that puzzles me for long about how to send commits per > email to Org ML? > > In the documentation (http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html), it's > written: > > #+begin_src sh > git commit -m "Your message" > git format-patch master > #+end_src ^^^^^^ > > When I follow it, there is no 0001-patch.txt file created... > > I must write: > > #+begin_src sh > git format-patch origin/master > #+end_src ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > for such patch files to be created. Is it a documentation bug, or some feature > of my (Git) installation? > > Best regards, > Seb > > > -- > Sebastien Vauban > >
