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Re: Patchy email
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Patchy email |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:03:41 +0200 |
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James <address@hidden> writes:
> David,
>
> Revert the commit if its easier. I'll figure it out this evening when
> I get home. It's probably some oversight or a makelsr issue.
>
> Sorry.
Ah, this was a third-party commit by you. The most frequent error here
is to apply a provided patch with
git apply xxx.patch
instead of
git apply --index xxx.patch
(only the latter will add new files to the repository). However, given
that there also is a large commit message with a significantly different
AuthorDate than the CommitDate, it is more likely that this was applied
and tested as a complete commit using
git am ...
So I don't really know.
--
David Kastrup