# git am cannot handle patches created with -B -M? 1 messages from 2010-09-08 to 2010-09-08. Participants: Geert Uytterhoeven. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25034 ## Geert Uytterhoeven, 2010-09-08 13:00 Subject: git am cannot handle patches created with -B -M? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTinX%3D52AofapdhEmAZX3ergn-JKtTc5_3ZCa9G_0%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hi, I tried applying the patch in http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-m68k/msg03012.html using `git am', but it failed: | Applying: m68k/m68knommu: merge MMU and non-MMU string.h | error: arch/m68k/include/asm/string.h: already exists in index | Patch failed at 0001 m68k/m68knommu: merge MMU and non-MMU string.h | When you have resolved this problem run "git am --resolved". | If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run "git am --skip". | To restore the original branch and stop patching run "git am --abort". And according to `git status' no files have conflicts?? Greg said he created the patch using `git format-patch -M -B'. The examples in the docs for format-patch say: | · The same as the previous one: | | $ git format-patch -M -B origin | | Additionally, it detects and handles renames and complete rewrites | intelligently to produce a renaming patch. A renaming patch reduces | the amount of text output, and generally makes it easier to review. | Note that non-git "patch" programs won't understand renaming | patches, so use it only when you know the recipient uses git to | apply your patch. so I'd expect `git am' to handle it. My git is 1.7.0.4. Is this bug fixed in a later version? Thanks in advance! Gr{oetje,eeting}s,                         Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.                                 -- Linus Torvalds ```