Re: CM 1.1 git question

[Jonathan Kulp]

Graham Percival wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:54:24PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, it does set things up properly.  I first acquired the repo using 
> > > the git-clone command and now I grab updates just fine with git pull 
> > > origin.  I think these are the only git commands I've ever used.  I'm 
> > > still using diff to make patches.
> > You might be interested in 'git format-patch', which can turn a bunch of 
> > commits into mail-like files including the author and the commit message, 
> > and which can be applied using 'git am', or sent via 'git send-email'.
>
> Jon should be especially interested in git format-patch, since
> that's the official CG way of creating patches and we're supposed
> to be eating this month.  ;)
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
Ok I'm reading about these git patch commands in CG.  Am I correct in 
thinking that it creates the patch by comparing my local (changed) file 
with the corresponding file in the remote git repository?  I've been 
doing this locally by saving a working copy of the file under a 
different filename, then running the diff -u command on the two local 
files to create the patch.  I guess the way for me to feel more 
comfortable with the git format-patch command would be to create a local 
backup of the file I'm going to edit before doing any edits.  Somehow 
I'm loathe to work directly on the source files...

Jon

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