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Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Ethan Galstad wrote:
>> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>>> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>>>> My apologies. It seems as though using geany for external
>>>> mail editor wasn't such a stellar idea. Ugh
>>>>
>>>> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [ a lot of malformed patch junk ]
>>>>
>>> Was the attached git-patch usable, or do you want me to re-send?
>>>
>>
>> It didn't apply cleanly, so I just made the changes manually. Not
>> sure if the git format was throwing things off or what...
>>
>
> Hmm. It works here, with patch -p1 version of patch are you using?
>
> git-apply works without a git repo otherwise. If you add --verbose to
> it the output is fairly similar to that of patch. Use --whitespace=strip
> to get rid of trailing spaces in patches.
>

I've got version 2.5.4 as well.

patch --dry-run -p1 < file

produced a lot of rejects and kept wanting to overwrite existing files
instead of just patching them.

Next time I run into this I'll send the output.


Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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