All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: joshc@eso.teric.us (Josh Cartwright)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Question about applying a kernel patch with "git am" received from a mailing list
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:39:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121120173916.GC6280@kryptos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXs5wURP=9LvuX2LhrpJ3rcvjNwLExWE6Veoog1ruOOnMdfPA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:24:28PM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> Hi,
> I am following some kernel mailing lists (netdev and others).
> I want to be able to save recent patches and to apply the against a git tree.
> 
> I tried using MUTT client for this. I save the patch (which is almost
> always inline).
> 
> Then I run
> git apply --check patchName
> and
> git apply  patchName
> and it applies cleanly.
> 
> But if I try:
> git am  patchName
> 
> It gives
> "Patch format detection failed."
> 
> Any recommendation what to do to apply a patch
> with "git am"?

Kevin-

Just use mutt's 'pipe-message' feature, which is bound to '|' by
default.  Pipe the message directly to 'git am'.

   Josh

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-20 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-20 17:24 Question about applying a kernel patch with "git am" received from a mailing list Kevin Wilson
2012-11-20 17:39 ` Josh Cartwright [this message]
2012-11-20 17:53   ` Kevin Wilson
2012-11-20 18:02     ` Josh Cartwright
2012-11-21 14:05       ` Kevin Wilson
2012-11-21 18:56 ` Jonathan Neuschäfer

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20121120173916.GC6280@kryptos \
    --to=joshc@eso.teric.us \
    --cc=kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.