Re: [BUG?] retrying with "am -3" doesn't work anymore

From: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 30, 2016, 04:18 UTC
Message-ID: <CACRoPnSrKyNS8EdFM119TT9qoUTdNy_+P5q-7rWMahpDzzGAKw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160330021502.GA16077@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi Jeff,

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> I noticed that I could not get a patch from Junio to apply earlier
> today, and I think it is a regression in the builtin git-am
> implementation.  I had trouble reproducing with a basic test case,
> though.
>
> Basically, I picked up the three patches from this sub-thread:
>
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/288987/focus=290222
>
> and tried to apply them on top of v2.8.0.
>
> Doing it with "git am -3 patches" works. But doing it with:
>
>   git am patches
>   git am -3
>
> doesn't. Bisecting shows that it did work before 783d7e8 (builtin-am:
> remove redirection to git-am.sh, 2015-08-04).

Yeah, with "git am -3" when resuming, the -3 will only affect the current conflicting patch since 852a171 (am: let command-line options override saved options, 2015-08-04).

Regards, Paul