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Re: [O] [PATCH] Use (point-marker) instead of (move-marker (make-marker)
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Bastien |
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Re: [O] [PATCH] Use (point-marker) instead of (move-marker (make-marker) (point)) |
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Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:01:44 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Achim Gratz <address@hidden> writes:
> Bastien writes:
>> Indeed. I cannot apply the patch, git am returns "patch format
>> detection faild." Can you resubmit it using git format-patch?
>
> You want to use 'git apply' on that patch, 'git am' is for applying
> patches produced by 'git format-patch' only.
Well, I'm trying to encourage people to submit patches that I can apply
easily with git am without having to edit the patch or to use git commit
--author=""... to credit the patch correctly.
> In a pinch however, you
> can relatively easily convert the patch format from 'git show to
> something suitable for 'git am':
>
> Replace "commit" with "From", Replace "Author" with "From" and replace
> the whitespace at the beginning of the first line of the commit message
> with "Subject: [PATCH] ".
Good to know, thank you.
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Bastien