On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > On 7/5/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > what's the easiest way to submit a patch that represents adding a > > new file to my git repo? i'm fairly sure it involves "git add" and > > "git commit". i just want to be able to physically add the file, then > > somehow commit it so it shows up with "git diff", submit that output > > as a patch, then remove the file and any reference to it and get back > > to where i started. > > > > what's the recipe? thanks. > > If not on branches: > > git add path/to/file > git commit -a -s > git diff HEAD^ > your-patch-file > git reset --hard HEAD^ that's the one i was thinking of, i believe. thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
