so I resorted to W s (Save diff as patch)

On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 11:04, dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>