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From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git am ~/Documents/mail-[1-9]-11.txt Patch format detection
 failed.
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:14:16 -0700
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On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 01:49:35PM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> git am is giving me trouble.
> 
> Im a gmail user, and have saved a patch series by doing
> show-original, save w rename for each patch
> [snip]

My experience with gmail + patches is that you need to use an
email client to download patches, not the web interface.

mutt works well for me.  Any client that can talk to gmail
over imaps:// should do the trick.

I couldn't find what was wrong with the patch you
attached to your original message, though.
-- 
					David