Re: Applying patches from a patch set

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 20, 2008, 20:06 UTC
Message-ID: <7vabaqy5kx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <dac45060812200637m49c71aa5x3c25010fa00f4a63@mail.gmail.com>

"Mark Ryden" <markryde@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hello,
>   I am subscribed to some linux kernel subsystem mailing list; in this
> list there are sometimes patchsets with more than
> 30-40 patches.
> I am using gmail web interface client.
>
> In order to apply a patch set I copy and paste each patch from the
> patchset into a file, and then apply that patch.
> I assume that there is a better way.
> Recently I encountered a fatal error when doing so (and I am not sure
> what caused it).
>
> So my question is: does anyone know a more elegant way of applying a
> large patchset ?
> Maybe there is better mail client with which this process can be done easily ?

First mistake(?) is you seem to be doing copy&paste from browser. Don't. It can easily damage whitespaces. Find out how your webmail interface allows you to save selected messages in a mbox and let you download it.

Then

	$ git am that-mbox-file