On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:

5) check in your own modifications (e.g. do some hacking, or apply a patch)

# go to repo
$ cd linux-2.6

# make some modifications
$ patch -sp1 < /tmp/my.patch
$ diffstat -p1 < /tmp/my.patch

# NOTE: add '--add' and/or '--remove' if files were added or removed
$ git-update-cache <list of all files changed>

There's actually "git add" for when you add a file (if you're actually
developing with git, rather than just applying patching with it). No
script, so far as I can tell, for removing a file, though.

	-Daniel
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