Hi,

On 2/22/07, Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I've often wished for more information from git-am (or more correctly,
> git-apply).  However, you can sometimes get what you need to know another
> way.
>

it seems pretty the same flow that I'm used to doing except that I
used 'patch' instead of 'git-apply'...

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>  * First, make sure that your current tree is checked in so you can get back
>    to it easily.  Maybe switch to a new temporary branch to make it easy to
>    return to your current point.
>  * Then run git-am to get the number of the failing patch, in your example
>    it's "0001"
>  * Now, try and apply the patch manually, but turn on verbose and reject in
>    git-apply
>     $ git-apply --verbose --reject .dotest/0001
>    This is the only way I've found to get git to tell you which hunk of the
>    patch is being rejected.  Unfortunately, it will also leave you with that
>    patch partially applied.

hm, I actually used 'patch' instead because I wasn't aware of
'--reject' option. The default behaviour is different, and I'm not
sure to know why...

Obviously I really should play with it.

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> Hope that helps.

thanks
-- 
Francis
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