Thanks, yeah I tried that, but it does not seem to work. I am selecting the
commit first,
but the command does not 'fill in' the range and does not create a patch
(to me it looks like
a bug, but probably I am doing something wrong)

On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 10:53, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:

> dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> Basically, the VCS will ask you to type in a message describing each
> >> commit you make.  You simply have to format that message like you
> >> would an entry in a ChangeLog.
> >
> > I guess you mean that git will ask to enter a commit message? So I did
> > that, but how does it get into the patch? (I am using magit, maybe I
> > should check out vc, which is what I am doing now)
>
> You export the commit as git patch using "git format-patch
> <commit-or-range>".  With Magit, that's available using `W c c'.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>