[development] using git, create patch with new files

[Bob Hutchinson]

On Monday 11 April 2011, Dave Cohen wrote:
> I'm trying, and failing, to create a patch that adds new files to a module.

Here is a simple way to pull together a patch on a drupal project.

Create a new directory, let's call it 'git-sandbox'
cd into it and run something like this:

git clone --branch 6.x-3.x http://git.drupal.org/project/mymodule.git

This will create a directory 'mymodule' (or whatever you fetched)

copy your changed files into it and run

git diff > mymodule.patch

if you are adding new files copy them in and run 'add .'

cd in and run

git diff --staged > mymodule.patch

To do both at the same time

git diff HEAD > mymodule.patch

As Sam Boyer explains earlier in this thread.

open the patchfile in your editor and eyeball to see if it makes any sense

If that's OK copy the patchfile away somewhere and delete
the whole mymodule directory and run the git clone command again, copy the
patchfile back in and run

git apply mymodule.patch
or
patch -p1 < mymodule.patch

if it applies cleanly you are ready to upload the patch to the issue queue
or wherever.

Of course a git clone run using http cannot be used for commits so it is
'safer' as it were.

You can also do all this and a lot more using a tool like Smartgit though
many would argue that learning it on the command line is better for
understanding it, true enough.

Another *big* help is to install the git docs (as well as php, mysql etc)
on your devbox.

Hope this helps.

> 
> According to http://drupal.org/node/707484, I should simply run `git add
> ...` then "Next time you run git diff, these new files will be included as
> well."  In my experience, this statement is false.
> 
> When I run `git status`, I see something like this:
> 
> [dave at starbuck fb-3]$ git status
> # On branch 6.x-3.x
> # Changes to be committed:
> #   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
> #
> #       new file:   fb.process.inc
> #       new file:   fb_tab.js
> #
> # Changes not staged for commit:
> #   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
> #   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working
> directory) #
> #       modified:   README.txt
> #       modified:   contrib/fb_example.module
> #       modified:   fb.module
> #       modified:   fb_canvas.admin.inc
> #       modified:   fb_canvas.module
> #       modified:   fb_devel.module
> #       modified:   fb_settings.inc
> #       modified:   fb_tab.admin.inc
> #       modified:   fb_tab.info
> #       modified:   fb_tab.module
> #       modified:   fb_url_rewrite.inc
> 
> 
> When I run `git diff`, I see changes to all the modified files, but I do
> not see the new files.
> 
> What am I missing?  Thanks,
> 
> -Dave


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