On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Josiah Schwab <jsch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > jw.he...@gmail.com writes: > >> emacs doc/org.texi >> >> [make changes to documentation] >> >> git commit -m "Update documentation to org-src-preserve-indentation." >> >> git format-patch master >> >> But no files were generated... Am I doing something incorrectly? > > Yes. You need to explicitly add your changes to the index. > > git add doc/org.text > > then git commit -m "message" will behave as you expect. > > (Using "git commit -a" worked, because that is like doing a "git add" to > all modified files.) > > It sounds like you misunderstand what "git add" does. If you read a > little bit more about git workflows, I think it will make sense to you.
Perhaps, though I'm familiar with `git -am "comment"` on my own stuff. I was just following along with Worg, which doesn't mention doing that. I'm now thinking that `git add` must be implied in the line =make some changes (1)=? John > > Perhaps the following link would be useful: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3689838/difference-between-head-working-tree-index-in-git > > Hope that helps, > Josiah >
