[LRUG] git question

[Chris Mear]

2009/8/20 Taryn East <teast at globalpersonals.co.uk>

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> 2009/8/20 Chris Mear <chrismear at gmail.com>
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>> On 20 Aug 2009, at 12:38, Taryn East wrote:
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>>  I do/did... but you can't use gitk to make patches... which would have
>>> made sense to me. In my mind I could "cherry pick" the commits I wanted in
>>> the patch and that would be nice... but it doesn't work that way :P
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>>> In the end I basically hand-copied the SHA1 ids of the commits I'd made
>>> (because there was all the cruft in there from rails/rails... pages and
>>> pages of it that had been done in the meantime) and then used those to feed
>>> into git-log -p for the patch.
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>> Ah. Were you working directly on the master branch, and then doing git
>> pull to get up-to-date?
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>> In other words, does gitk look like this:
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>> http://feedmechocolate.com/stuff/mergingmaster.png
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> yep - that's it exactly :)
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> If so, git pull would be doing merges for you, which isn't what you want --
>> it ends up with the interleaved scenario you seem to be describing.
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> cool - so at least I know how I got into the opriginal mess... and now I
> know how to work on a branch.
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> So as long as I work on a fork what would be the steps to making a patch?
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> branch... commit, commit, commit, pull+rebase... then what?
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> form-patch for all commits in the branch?
> would that apply to the upstream (ie rails/rails) or just my fork?
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Yup, that's right. The key step is that when you do:

rebase master

that 'master' needs to be the latest commit in rails/rails. If you're
pulling from rails/rails into your local master, then that'll be the case.
Then you're all set to do:

git format-patch master --stdout > patch.diff

Chris
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