Re: Assistance with patching instructions on Worg

[John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Josiah Schwab <jschwab@gmail.com> wrote:
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> jw.hendy@gmail.com writes:
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>> emacs doc/org.texi
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>> [make changes to documentation]
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>> git commit -m "Update documentation to org-src-preserve-indentation."
>>
>> git format-patch master
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>> But no files were generated... Am I doing something incorrectly?
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> Yes.  You need to explicitly add your changes to the index.
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>   git add doc/org.text
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> then git commit -m "message" will behave as you expect.
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> (Using "git commit -a" worked, because that is like doing a "git add" to
> all modified files.)
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> It sounds like you misunderstand what "git add" does.  If you read a
> little bit more about git workflows, I think it will make sense to you.

Perhaps, though I'm familiar with `git -am "comment"` on my own stuff.
I was just following along with Worg, which doesn't mention doing
that. I'm now thinking that `git add` must be implied in the line
=make some changes (1)=?


John

>
> Perhaps the following link would be useful:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3689838/difference-between-head-working-tree-index-in-git
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> Hope that helps,
> Josiah
>