I am working on a project which uses git. Whenever I make changes, I submit a patch to the main developer who apply and commit it. Things worked nicely this far whith:
git diff > somepatch.patch
But when I create new files, The above command doesn't work. It creates a patch which doesn't contain new files that I created. I tried adding them to git like this:-
git add path/to/the/file.qml
but this also doesn't work.
If you already added your changes to the repo, they won't appear in the git diff output unless you use the --staged parameter to ask for changes already added to index.
git diff --staged > your.patch
So if you have a mix of added and non-yet-added changes, you can even the situation with
git add .
then proceed with your diff.
As a sidenote, an alternative would be to unstage everything and do a classic diff without --staged :
git reset HEAD
git diff > your.patch