From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to apply (multi file) patches conveniently Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 09:25:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87efzb5xgl.fsf@drachen> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1486477634 11300 195.159.176.226 (7 Feb 2017 14:27:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 14:27:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 07 15:27:11 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cb6jb-0002de-CI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 15:27:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54336 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cb6jg-0003Ps-Qd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 09:27:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42988) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cb6ht-0002fv-AF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 09:25:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cb6ho-0004uh-B0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 09:25:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41149 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cb6ho-0004ss-4z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 09:25:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cb6he-0005ac-FZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 15:25:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:nVPYh/7Qb9GYHsAI6aRmr+SqPLQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112265 Archived-At: > Though the patch looks normal to me (what could I'm being doing wrong? > in 50% of the cases it works as expected, and I don't see that I'm doing > something differently in these cases). Many patches in email are broken by line-wrapping and things like that (diff-mode has some code to try and undo the damage in some cases, tho lately it hasn't been very effective). Not sure if it explains our 50% failure rate, but it's at least a likely explanation for some of them. Stefan