2016-08-05 12:09 GMT+02:00 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>:

>
> Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello
> >
> >>> I attempted to apply the patch onto a fresh Guix master and the patch
> does
> >>> not apply, I don't know why
> >
> > When I fail to apply a patch that's often because of a wrong -p
> parameter.
> > Try with "--dry-run -p0" or "--dry-run -p1" to find the good one. You
> can also
> > look at file paths in the patch and deduce the right path strip level.
>
> I haven’t used “patch” in quite a while because usually “git am
> the-patch-file” just works.  If the patch was created with “git
> format-patch” against master you shouldn’t have any problems using “git
> am” on it.
>
> ~~ Ricardo
>
>
>
Thank you all people for your help. I appreciate that.

Yes, Ricardo, you nailed it

I had attempted with

  git apply --check path/to/the.patch

because I read that it is a good idea to verify the applicability of a
patch before actually applying it

Then I tried with a simple

  git am path/to/the.patch

and it worked like a breeze

I looked at the log and there's the commit of the patch on top of f467c35261

I had wrongly assumed that "git apply --check.." and "git am..." would have
envisioned the same process

So what's the use case for "git apply --check.." ? Bah...

Thanks again