format-patch

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 21, 2016, at 11:46 PM, Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Re
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Update_Instructions#Step_13_Prepa
> re_your_Patch :
> 
> You can make patches of all commits between HEAD and the origin branch
> pointer, which is usually what you want, with 
> 
> git format-patch
> 
> 'git format-patch' never does anything for me. I have to use:
> 
> git format-patch HEAD^
> 
> or
> 
> git format-patch -n
> 
> Am I doing something wrong or should the above 2 lines in the wiki be
> modified to something else?
> 

No, you're not doing anything wrong. Unsurprisingly `git format-patch` needs you to tell it what you want to make a patch of. The man page [1] explains that at length, perhaps linking to it in the wiki page would be a good option.

Regards,
John Ralls

[1] http://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch