On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 03:57:39PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Jonathan Kulp wrote: > > > Am I correct in thinking that [git format-patch] creates the patch by > > comparing my local (changed) file with the corresponding file in the > > remote git repository? > > No, it creates patches from commits. So you use Git as usual: > > (inspect your changes) > $ git diff > (stage the modified files) > $ git add <files> > (commit the stuff) > $ git commit > (now generate patches from, say, the last 3 commits) > $ git format-patch -3 > > From the rest of your mail I see that you made work hard on yourself by > not using Git at all...
Yes, definitely. I must admit that I think I forgot to explain these steps in the CG. Could somebody take a look at it (Documentation/devel/starting-git.itexi or git-starting.itexi) and add the "git add / git commit" commands? And was there a way to get "git format-patch" to produce individual patches for every commit made since the last pull? I'd rather not have new committers trying to remember how many commits they made, although I suppose that they'd generally just make one commit with everything included... Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
