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Re: "Patch is empty. Was is split wrong?"

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Mar 17, 2007, 04:19 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
>> My usage of "git-applymbox -u" these days always results in these bogus 
>> warnings:
>>
>> 	Patch is empty.  Was is split wrong?
>> 	/home/torvalds/bin/git-applymbox: line 82: stop_here: command not found
>>
>> but then it applies the patch anyway.
>>
>> Hmm? I've not looked into it any more yet.
>
> Sounds like two new bugs from the mailinfo series we added last
> week, primarily 87ab7992 and f0658cf2.

Sheesh. Sorry, for a false patch. Here is a fix (will do this on 'master' tonight).

diff --git a/git-applymbox.sh b/git-applymbox.sh
index 2cbdc7e..3efd6a7 100755
--- a/git-applymbox.sh
+++ b/git-applymbox.sh
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ do
     *)
 	    git-mailinfo $keep_subject $utf8 \
 		.dotest/msg .dotest/patch <$i >.dotest/info || exit 1
-	    test -s $dotest/patch || {
+	    test -s .dotest/patch || {
 		echo "Patch is empty.  Was is split wrong?"
-		stop_here $this
+		exit 1
 	    }
 	    git-stripspace < .dotest/msg > .dotest/msg-clean
 	    ;;
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