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Re: Quick question: how to generate a patch?

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AAubrey <aubreylee@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 27, 2006, 17:18 UTC
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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...)?
No, I did nothing between "git clone" and "git diff" except changing one file.
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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?
>

Yes, "git update-index --refresh" works. After this command, I got what I want. It's the diff in unified git format.

Regards, -Aubrey

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