Chris Roland » Git http://www.chrisroland.info Software, Web and Database Developer Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:44:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Git Patching on Windows http://www.chrisroland.info/git-patching-on-windows/ http://www.chrisroland.info/git-patching-on-windows/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:56:22 +0000 Chris Roland http://www.chrisroland.info/?p=139 I just ran into an simple but annoying issue. I wanted to create a patch from a git clone I made a modification on Windows with Git. I kept running into blank git patch files and I finally found out what I was doing wrong. Here are the steps I used to create a patch on Windows with Git:

1. Grabbed a fresh copy of the git clone
I did this because the current clone I had was full of other changes and I wanted to isolate the patch changes.

2. Modify your clone

3. Commit the changes
Run “git commit -a” – Make sure you put in a comment before you save the file.

4. Create the patch
Run “git format-patch -1″ – This will generate a *.patch file. Make sure you are in the correct folder, but don’t worry it will complain if you are not.

That’s it, I hope this helps someone.

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