On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:53:57PM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote:

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Josh Cartwright [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:24:28PM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote:

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Hi,
I am following some kernel mailing lists (netdev and others).
I want to be able to save recent patches and to apply the against a git tree.

I tried using MUTT client for this. I save the patch (which is almost
always inline).

Then I run
git apply --check patchName
and
git apply  patchName
and it applies cleanly.

But if I try:
git am  patchName

It gives
"Patch format detection failed."

Any recommendation what to do to apply a patch
with "git am"?

Kevin-

Just use mutt's 'pipe-message' feature, which is bound to '|' by
default.  Pipe the message directly to 'git am'.

Hi,
Thanks for the quick response!  I press "|" , I want to pipe to the
git tree (which is /work/src/net-next). How do I tell pipe that the
path of git tree is there?

Simple!

Instead of piping to 'git am', pipe to 'cd /work/src/net-next && git am'.

Alternatively, run mutt from your source tree.

   Josh