Re: Quick question: how to generate a patch?

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Feb 27, 2006, 17:09 UTC
Message-ID: <44033241.6070001@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <6d6a94c50602270902k2c06aaffw7e70268b0753ef64@mail.gmail.com>

Aubrey wrote:

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>>It really should "just have worked". Can you show what the diff actually
>>looked like, and your exact command history?
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>>If it was something like
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>>        git clone remote-repo localdir
>>        cd localdir
>>        vi somefile
>>        git diff
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> Yes, exactly right.
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Did you by any chance do chmod -R, chown -R or start an ntp daemon somewhere in between there (don't know if clock skews will be detected by git, but...)?

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>>then you did everything right, and if it gives any diff other than your
>>changes to "somefile", something is buggy. Need more info.
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>>Does "git diff" and "git diff HEAD" give different results, btw?
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> Yes. the two commands give the same results.
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Decidedly odd. What happens when you do "git update-index --refresh" and then re-run the "git diff > my.patch" thing?

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