# Applying attached patches with git-am fails due to leading > in patch 1 messages from 2015-12-21 to 2015-12-21. Participants: Julian Andres Klode. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/41054 ## Julian Andres Klode, 2015-12-21 17:21 Subject: Applying attached patches with git-am fails due to leading > in patch Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAEA6rAyhsuVvji%3DKjX3q%2Brq-tF4TTRfAgxjpTcPFU_YkNE-gfA%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hi everyone, when I get an email with a patch attached, instead of inline, and save the attachment; the first line "From ..." has a ">" in front of it, which causes git-am to not recognize the patch format. Would it be possible to just ignore the > on that line and then read the patch correctly? It's a bit annoying to have to remove one byte at the beginning of the patch before I can apply it. Thanks, Julian -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. ```