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Re: git am ~/Documents/mail-[1-9]-11.txt Patch format detection failed.

From
David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 14, 2011, 02:14 UTC
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On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 01:49:35PM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
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> git am is giving me trouble.
> 
> Im a gmail user, and have saved a patch series by doing
> show-original, save w rename for each patch
> [snip]

My experience with gmail + patches is that you need to use an email client to download patches, not the web interface.

mutt works well for me. Any client that can talk to gmail over imaps:// should do the trick.

I couldn't find what was wrong with the patch you attached to your original message, though.

-- 
					David
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