$ git checkout master
$ cd Documentation; ed git.txt ...
$ cd ..; git add Documentation/*.txt
- $ git commit -s -v
-
-NOTE. The -v flag to commit is a handy way to make sure that
-your additions are not introducing bogusly formatted lines.
+ $ git commit -s
After the commit, the ancestry graph would look like this:
Let's go back to the earlier picture, with different labels.
You, as an individual developer, cloned upstream repository and
-amde a couple of commits on top of it.
+made a couple of commits on top of it.
*your "master" head
upstream --> #1 --> #2 --> #3
$ git format-patch master^^ master
-This creates two files, 0001-XXXX.txt and 0002-XXXX.txt. Send
+This creates two files, 0001-XXXX.patch and 0002-XXXX.patch. Send
them out "To: " your project maintainer and "Cc: " your mailing
list. You could use contributed script git-send-email if
your host has necessary perl modules for this, but your usual
The two commits #2' and #3' in the above picture record the same
changes your e-mail submission for #2 and #3 contained, but
-probably with the new sign-off line added by the upsteam
+probably with the new sign-off line added by the upstream
maintainer and definitely with different committer and ancestry
information, they are different objects from #2 and #3 commits.