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diff --git a/doc/contributing/coding-conventions.chapter.md b/doc/contributing/coding-conventions.chapter.md index 2e795015e36..f470e2bb80f 100644 --- a/doc/contributing/coding-conventions.chapter.md +++ b/doc/contributing/coding-conventions.chapter.md @@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ If you do need to do create this sort of patch file, one way to do so is with gi 4. Use git to create a diff, and pipe the output to a patch file: ```ShellSession - $ git diff > nixpkgs/pkgs/the/package/0001-changes.patch + $ git diff -a > nixpkgs/pkgs/the/package/0001-changes.patch ``` If a patch is available online but does not cleanly apply, it can be modified in some fixed ways by using additional optional arguments for `fetchpatch`: |