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

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 30 August 2017 at 18:50, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>
> Is there a way to make git ignore the *.o and *.a and other generated files
> that might be in the source tree that we're not interested in tracking -- or
> does the -A do that automatically?

No, "git add -A" adds literally everything (other than the ignored
files) which is why you would probably want to run it before the
configure and build phase.

What I also do quite often is to run just "git add
file-I-am-working-with.c" instead of "git add -A" before editing one
particular file. Alternatively you could do "git diff file1.c file2.c"
at the end to show just the changes you are interested in (if you
ended up with too many files accidentally).

Mojca