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I have found an issue on drupal.org that I would like to submit an solution for. How can I create a patch using git so that I can submit it as a possible fix?

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We want to avoid the easy questions during private beta. This can be easily answered by looking at the documentation. – user7 Mar 3 '11 at 21:21

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Every Drupal.org project has a tab title 'Version control', click on it and it will take you to a page with Git instructions, including a section titled 'Creating a patch'.

See here for an example: http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg_fields/git-instructions

Code below is copied from the D.o. instructions.

git checkout -b [description]-[issue-number]

Make your changes. Note the change in syntax for issue-related commit messages. See the Commit messages page for details.

git add -A
git commit -m "Issue #[issue number] by [comma-separated usernames]: [Short summary of the change]."

Roll the patch.

git status
git fetch origin
git rebase origin/6.x-1.x
git format-patch origin/6.x-1.x --stdout > [description]-[issue-number]-[comment-number].patch
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