Hi,
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Graham Percival wrote:
> 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?
Sorry, I am too swamped with work this week.
> 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...
Yes:
$ git format-patch origin/web
will produce individual patches (as -3 would have done), from everything
not yet in origin/web.
Ciao,
Dscho
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