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Quick question: how to generate a patch?

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AAubrey <aubreylee@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 27, 2006, 14:57 UTC
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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.

Regards, -Aubrey

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