Re: Quick question: how to generate a patch?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Feb 27, 2006, 16:32 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602270830330.22647@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <6d6a94c50602270818k5f82bb8ft68a19899db3db636@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Aubrey wrote:

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> No, what I did was just "git clone" one repository to my local directory.
> And entered the local directory to modify one file I wanted.
> Then I run "git diff > my.patch". The "my.patch" was supposed to
> contain one file diff information. But it contained the all the files,
> including which were not changed.

It really should "just have worked". Can you show what the diff actually looked like, and your exact command history?

If it was something like

	git clone remote-repo localdir
	cd localdir
	vi somefile
	git diff

then you did everything right, and if it gives any diff other than your changes to "somefile", something is buggy. Need more info.

Does "git diff" and "git diff HEAD" give different results, btw?

		Linus