Question about "Creating first patch" guide

[Rob Groner]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg at kroah.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 3:44 PM
> To: Rob Groner <rgroner at RTD.com>
> Cc: kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
> Subject: Re: Question about "Creating first patch" guide
> 
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 07:22:08PM +0000, Rob Groner wrote:
> > The OutreachyfirstpatchSetup has been very helpful in setting up my
> > computer to develop a patch to submit to the kernel overlords.
> >
> >
> >
> > I’m at the point where I’ve changed the kernel code, ran and test it,
> > and see just my changes with “git diff”.  What has me a little
> > confused is that before I actually create the patch file (to submit to
> > the appropriate mailing list), it says to actually commit the change.
> > Perhaps I don’t understand how git handles commit (I primarily use
> > svn), but it seems like actually committing the change is kind of
> > presumptuous before even posting anything on the mailing list of those
> that control the git repository.
> >
> >
> >
> > What part am I not understanding?
> 
> You should create a branch and work on that, making a commit there, then it
> is trivial to turn that into a patch, as the tutorial suggests.
> 
> With git, everything can be local, svn requires you to push your changes to
> the server, which is the big difference here.
> 
> hope this helps,
> 
> greg k-h

And sorry for the top-posting.  I had no idea that was a thing until 5 minutes ago.  Mailing lists are a completely new thing to me (at age 44+).

Rob