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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-06-26 21:03:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-06-26 21:08:22 +0200 |
| commit | 556fbb57216b119155cdda824c98dc579b8121c8 (patch) | |
| tree | efc7c8ddd8672c55c6af8b9e7f3efd4764924639 /HACKING | |
| parent | b1a1c9ee068ab41c08cf289b85981985412b5dd2 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-556fbb57216b119155cdda824c98dc579b8121c8.tar.xz | |
* HACKING: use shorter "-1" (over HEAD~1) with git format-patch
Diffstat (limited to 'HACKING')
| -rw-r--r-- | HACKING | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Once your change is committed, you can create a proper patch that includes a log message and authorship information as well as any permissions changes. Use this command to save that single, most-recent change set: - git format-patch --stdout HEAD~1 > DIFF + git format-patch --stdout -1 > DIFF The trouble with this approach is that you've just checked in a change (remember, it's only local) on the "master" branch, and that's where new @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ It's easy to adjust: edit your files # this can include running "git add NEW" or "git rm BAD" git commit --amend -e -a - git format-patch --stdout HEAD~1 > your-branch.diff + git format-patch --stdout -1 > your-branch.diff That replaces the most recent change-set with the revised one. |