Re: Quick question: how to generate a patch?

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Feb 27, 2006, 15:28 UTC
Message-ID: <44031A84.1080704@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <6d6a94c50602270657m453cc581p6ec290c20879de25@mail.gmail.com>

Aubrey wrote:

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> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a newbie of git. I have a question about how to generate a patch by git.
> I want to make a patch againt git repository HEAD. So in my local
> tree, I do the command:
> 
> git diff -p > my.patch
> 
> The file my.patch is generated. But the unchanged files information is
> also included in the patch file. It should be quiet.
> Was I wrong to use git by this way?
> 
> Thanks for your hints.
>

The current best practice involves these steps:
1. Create a topic branch (git checkout -b feature-name)
2. Apply your changes and commit them, preferrably in small and isolated 
steps, making sure it compiles after each change.
3. Run "git format-patch origin".

This will result in one or more commit-patches, which contains your author info, the commit-messages you wrote, the commit-time and all other such info and ofcourse the diff in unified git format. You can send those patches on using "git send-email" or apply them using "git am -k 00*.txt".

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