On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 14:26 +0100, Joel Reardon wrote:
> p.s., I'm new to this git; git format-patch gives me one patch per commit,
> which is a pity for a commit that e.g, fixes a typo. Format-patch
> doesn't obviously report how to produce unified patches. Creating a new
> branch, applying the patches, committing, and generating a new patch seems
> too much overkill but I've seen it proposed. Simpler way?

The --amend option of git commit allows you to update the current HEAD
commit. I could not really understand which other questions you ask, but
if you have a specific question - I may try to help.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy