Aubrey wrote:
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.
The current best practice involves these steps:
1. Create a topic branch (git checkout -b feature-name)
2. Apply your changes and commit them, preferrably in small and isolated
steps, making sure it compiles after each change.
3. Run "git format-patch origin".
This will result in one or more commit-patches, which contains your
author info, the commit-messages you wrote, the commit-time and all
other such info and ofcourse the diff in unified git format. You can
send those patches on using "git send-email" or apply them using "git am
-k 00*.txt".
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