Re: git-am doesn't apply the rest of the email after a partial patch fail?

["Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>]

So, it turns out, `--reject` is not default for git-am / git-apply,
and has to be explicitly specified for the desired behaviour.  Makes
no sense, if you ask me, and especially the below error message, which
tells you nothing about having to use `--reject`:

% git am ../grok-old-hg-git.git/00{27,28,29,30,31}*
...
error: patch failed: build.xml:178
error: build.xml: patch does not apply
error: patch failed: src/org/opensolaris/opengrok/analysis/AnalyzerGuru.java:64
error: src/org/opensolaris/opengrok/analysis/AnalyzerGuru.java: patch
does not apply
Patch failed at 0001 src/.../uue/Uuencode*{lex,java}: introducing
uuencode(5) support
When you have resolved this problem run "git am --resolved".
If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run "git am --skip".
To restore the original branch and stop patching run "git am --abort".
%

Correcting the specified failures and running `git am --resolved`
won't get you anywhere.  Have to abort, and run `git am --reject` to
get anywhere.

C.

On 7 April 2013 11:00, Constantine A. Murenin <mureninc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to convert/rebase about 40 local patches from an old
> mercurial fork of OpenGrok (upstream used to use hg), to the new git
> repository (upstream has recently switched to github).
>
> What I decided to do is convert my old mercurial repo to git (by
> pushing with py-hg-git to a git repository, and then checking out with
> git), and use `git format-patch` from an old .hg-git.git repository,
> and then use `git am` on the new (upstream git) repository of the
> `format-patch` mails from an old one.
>
> However, what I've faced with, is that when a conflict happens, and I
> resolve, and do `git add`, and `git am --resolved`, then the rest of
> the `format-patch` email where the conflict has occurred is discarded,
> and the subsequent patch/email now doesn't want to apply either, since
> all of the previous patch/email is missing, other than the manually
> added changes.
>
> What gives?  Does `git am --resolve` discard the rest of the mail, if
> any patching errors occur?  Is one supposed to apply the whole
> `format-patch` email manually when `git am` does encounter some
> problem with only some minor parts of that email?
>
> % git --version; uname -rms
> git version 1.7.6
> OpenBSD 5.2 amd64
>
> C.