From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Mark Ryden" <markryde@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Applying patches from a patch set
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:06:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vabaqy5kx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dac45060812200637m49c71aa5x3c25010fa00f4a63@mail.gmail.com> (Mark Ryden's message of "Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:37:42 +0200")
"Mark Ryden" <markryde@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
> I am subscribed to some linux kernel subsystem mailing list; in this
> list there are sometimes patchsets with more than
> 30-40 patches.
> I am using gmail web interface client.
>
> In order to apply a patch set I copy and paste each patch from the
> patchset into a file, and then apply that patch.
> I assume that there is a better way.
> Recently I encountered a fatal error when doing so (and I am not sure
> what caused it).
>
> So my question is: does anyone know a more elegant way of applying a
> large patchset ?
> Maybe there is better mail client with which this process can be done easily ?
First mistake(?) is you seem to be doing copy&paste from browser. Don't.
It can easily damage whitespaces. Find out how your webmail interface
allows you to save selected messages in a mbox and let you download it.
Then
$ git am that-mbox-file
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-20 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-20 14:37 Applying patches from a patch set Mark Ryden
2008-12-20 19:25 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-12-20 20:06 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-12-23 11:25 ` Mark Ryden
2008-12-21 8:20 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2008-12-21 18:34 ` Mark Ryden
2008-12-21 18:53 ` Jakub Narebski
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