gEDA-dev: Git: creating a patch

[Stephen Williams]

Thanks, Cesar. I've improved the instructions at iverilog.wikia.com
to include this part of your git magic. It is a recipe that many
folks will need (including me, it seems.)

Cesar Strauss wrote:
> 1) Clone the Icarus Verilog git repository
> 
> $ git clone git://icarus.com/~steve-icarus/verilog
> 
> Initialized empty Git repository in 
> /home/cstrauss/programas/eletronica/geda/verilog/.git/
> remote: Generating pack...
> remote: Done counting 23261 objects.
> remote: Deltifying 23261 objects...
> remote:  100% (23261/23261) done
> Indexing 23261 objects...
> remote: Total 23261 (delta 18313), reused 18183 (delta 14343)
>   100% (23261/23261) done
> Resolving 18313 deltas...
>   100% (18313/18313) done
> 
> $ cd verilog
> 
> 2) You are now in the development branch, but you want the stable 
> branch. Do not checkout the origin/v0_8-branch directly, it is reserved 
> for remote updates. Instead, create a local branch, based on the remote 
> stable branch:
> 
> $ git checkout --track -b v0_8-branch origin/v0_8-branch
> 
> Branch v0_8-branch set up to track remote branch 
> refs/remotes/origin/v0_8-branch.
> Switched to a new branch "v0_8-branch"


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