Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:
1078:jnareb@roke:~/git> rm -rf .dotest/
1079:jnareb@roke:~/git> git reset --hard
1080:jnareb@roke:~/git> git am --3way --utf8 --keep --binary \
mdir.0/0001-gitweb-Refactor-git_history_body.txt
Applying '[PATCH 1/1] gitweb: Refactor git_history_body'
error: patch failed: gitweb/gitweb.perl:2295
error: gitweb/gitweb.perl: patch does not apply
error: patch failed: gitweb/gitweb.perl:2295
error: gitweb/gitweb.perl: patch does not apply
Patch failed at 0001.
When you have resolved this problem run "git-am -3 --resolved".
This is not falling back to three-way. One likely reason is you
do not have blobs identified on the "index " line of the patch
in your repostory.