hi robert, El Fri, May 01, 2009 at 07:08:01AM -0400 Robert P. J. Day ha dit: > > embarrassed to admit it but i've still never had the occasion to > generate a multi-part patch for emailing, so what's the recipe? > > i'm assuming i would start with a fresh "git pull", make my changes > one after another, individually "add" each diff to my index and, once > i'm done, run the appropriate command to generate multiple emails with > parts [0/n], [1/n], etc. and at the end of it, just "git reset --hard > HEAD" to throw it all away. > > is the above understanding correct as far as i know it? thanks. instead of working on the master branch and then throwing away your changed you'd better use a branch: # update your tree git pull # create the branch 'my_branch' based on the HEAD of 'master' git branch my_branch # switch to 'my_branch' git checkout my_branch # you could do the previous two steps in a single command: git checkout -b 'my_branch' # edit and commit your changes ... # generate the emails git format-patch <options> # switch to the 'master' branch git checkout master # throw away 'my_branch' git branch -d my_branch the book "Pragmatic Version Control Using Git" (http://www.pragprog.com/titles/tsgit/pragmatic-version-control-using-git) gives a good and lightweight introduction to the most important git commands. LWN posted recently a review about this book: http://lwn.net/Articles/327499/ the git community book is also a valuable source of information: http://book.git-scm.com/index.html regards -- Matthias Kaehlcke Embedded Linux Engineer Barcelona For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others (Nelson Mandela) .''`. using free software / Debian GNU/Linux | http://debian.org : :' : `. `'` gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 47D8E5D4 `- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
