question about git workflow

[Peter Jones]

On 03/31/2009 12:52 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 03/31/2009 12:42 PM, Christoph Höger wrote:
>> Hi there dvcs users,
>> 
>> I am getting used to using git while working with upstream
>> projects. So when I try to make a patch available upstream, I
>> encounter the following problem: I want to make small commits
>> during my work but of course send the result as a single patch via
>> git format-patch. So what's best:
>> 
>> 1. clone upstream, create another local branch, work there, and
>> then merge that branchs changes via diff?
>> 
>> 2. use<UNKNOWN_GIT_COMMAND>  to merge those commits into a single
>> one?
> 
> "git-diff from..to" can do that.  But srsly, why not send a patch 
> series? That's the beauty of git.

Well, you might still want to send a patch series, but in a form that's
more clear to readers than the series you actually committed.

-- 
        Peter

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to
change that here and there.
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