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Re: the simplest way to add a file to my git repo and submit as a patch?

On 7/5/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Eric Lesh wrote:

> You definitely don't need to create a new branch if you don't want to.
> (from master)
>     $ echo "foo" > newfile              # edit the file
>     $ git add newfile                   # add it to the index
>     $ git commit -m "Add newfile"       # commit it
>     $ git format-patch HEAD^            # get the diff versus the state before
>     $ git reset --hard HEAD^            # reset to state before
>
> HEAD^ means "the commit before the one I'm at right now."

actually, a little experimentation suggests that this might be all i
need:

  - physically add <new file>
  $ git add <new file>
  $ git diff HEAD > patchfile
  - physically remove <new file>
  $ git rm <new file>


Yep, or instead of git-rm, you can just do `git-reset --hard HEAD`.
It's essentially the same, since you did no commit'ing.

Thanks,
Nish

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