Re: [EGIT PATCH] Add support for writing/appending .gitignore file

[Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@gmail.com>]

On 20 Apr 2009, at 07:32, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

> måndag 20 april 2009 04:40:42 skrev Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@gmail.com 
> >:
>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Robin Rosenberg
>> <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> wrote:
>> One advantage of attaching issues is you don't have MUA problems :-)
>> I'll try and get a patch to work via git-send-email later.
>
> The problem is review. With e-mail I can just hit reply and comment  
> on your
> patch. Did your try the SMTP interface to gmail? I think e-mailing  
> inlined patches is
> a nearly perfect. Inline-attachment is ok with me. That makes it  
> possible to
> comment on them like any email in my mail program.

Right, but the same approach is possible in a bug tracking system -  
just comment. And people get a notification that a change has  
occurred, too. Except instead of one giant inbox of a collection of  
patches, all the discussion/feedback/comments are limited to the right  
scope (i.e. just that bug/patch). In fact, quite a lot of review goes  
on outside of the mail client and directly inside the editor e.g. via  
Mylyn or internal web browser to the issue.

It also allows others - who might not be on the original 'to' list -  
to subscribe to a bug (or star it, in Google's terms) to receive  
notifications and see specific updates.

>> I've been incrementally committing to my local git copy. Whenever I  
>> do
>> git format-patch <since> it spews out individual patchettes. How  
>> can I
>> use git to generate one patch? I could git diff <since>, but that's
>> not following the SUBMITTING_PATCHES, is it?
>
> Often, after a long session, you end up with a "mess" of commits,  
> many which
> don't make sense to anyone but you. For this you use rebase -i to  
> clean up.

Great, that's useful to know. Unfortunately, I get an error when I try  
this:

apple:egit alex$ git status
# On branch master
# Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 9 commits.
#
nothing to commit (working directory clean)

apple:egit alex$ git rebase -i origin/master
Working tree is dirty
apple:egit alex$ git rebase -i d0fd6f96b9311b972c6bffa8680544607d7e3c56
Working tree is dirty
apple:egit alex$

I'm probably doing something obviously wrong here, but I don't know  
how to understand the difference between 'working tree is dirty' and  
'working directory clean', especially since git status (or git commit - 
a) doesn't show any differences.

Please excuse me whilst I figure out how to get comfortable working  
with git ...

Alex