how to efficiently work through generating patches using git and macports build process?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 30, 2017, at 10:44, Ken Cunningham wrote:

> When trying to fix broken ports, I have so far been using the method of copying the source file to source.orig, editing the source files in place, and then noting the files I worked on, to individually diff them at the end to individual patch files.
> 
> It's easy to understand, but not super efficient, especially when I make a number of changes in different files.

This basically describes what I do. I'm happy with this process because I understand it.