From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Applying patches from a patch set Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:06:22 -0800 Message-ID: <7vabaqy5kx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Mark Ryden" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Dec 20 21:10:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LE89m-0001hc-QV for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:10:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753086AbYLTUG3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:06:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753075AbYLTUG3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:06:29 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:43782 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752775AbYLTUG2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:06:28 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F2EE8730C; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:06:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 75B148730A; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:06:24 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Mark Ryden's message of "Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:37:42 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: AF31F09A-CED1-11DD-98F2-5720C92D7133-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Mark Ryden" 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