Re: Error in posix_spawn(3) man page

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>]

On Jan  7 20:30, Keith Thompson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 4:01 PM Keith Thompson
> <Keith.S.Thompson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The problem was that I had diff.noprefix=true in my $HOME/.gitconfig.
> > It caused `git format-patch` to omit the `a/` and `b/` prefixes, and `git am`
> > doesn't appear to have any way to consume a patch with those prefixes missing.
> >
> > I've attached an updated patch that should apply cleanly.
> >
> > (I'd argue that this is a git bug, but of course this isn't the place
> > to report it.)
> 
> I submitted a Git bug report. The response:
> ] The -p<num> flag controls how many segments `git am` or `git apply`
> ] removes. The default is -p1. `git am -p0` should apply the patch
> ] correctly.
> 
> The "-p<n>" option to "git am" is mentioned in the git-am(1) man page,
> but explained only by reference to git-apply(1), so it's easy to miss
> (I certainly did).
> 
> My original patch could have been applied with `git am -p0`. I hope
> this is useful if you receive any future patches with the same issue.

D'oh, thanks!  I pushed your patch.


Corinna