[diggan]

If you just want to preview the patch itself you can generate it and preview/test use it by doing "git diff > my-own-patch.patch", which would be identical to the patch that "git send-email" would attach to your email. You can apply it with "git apply my-own-patch.patch" for example.

People generally are helpful if it's your first time contributing, so if someone isn't right, I'm sure someone will help you get it right.