Re: Question about applying a kernel patch with git am received from a mailing list

2012-11-21 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hi, Josh, Thanks again! While your suggestion works, it has some disadvantages; maybe you/someone can advice: 1) In the case when I want to apply a series of patches, let's say a patchset of 10 patches, does this mean that I should run pipe git am on each of them ? 2) Even this is the case;

Re: Question about applying a kernel patch with git am received from a mailing list

2012-11-21 Thread Jonathan Neuschäfer
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:24:28PM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, I am following some kernel mailing lists (netdev and others). I want to be able to save recent patches and to apply the against a git tree. I tried using MUTT client for this. I save the patch (which is almost always inline).

Question about applying a kernel patch with git am received from a mailing list

2012-11-20 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hi, I am following some kernel mailing lists (netdev and others). I want to be able to save recent patches and to apply the against a git tree. I tried using MUTT client for this. I save the patch (which is almost always inline). Then I run git apply --check patchName and git apply patchName

Re: Question about applying a kernel patch with git am received from a mailing list

2012-11-20 Thread Josh Cartwright
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:24:28PM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, I am following some kernel mailing lists (netdev and others). I want to be able to save recent patches and to apply the against a git tree. I tried using MUTT client for this. I save the patch (which is almost always inline).

Re: Question about applying a kernel patch with git am received from a mailing list

2012-11-20 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hi, Thanks for the quick response! I press | , I want to pipe to the git tree (which is /work/src/net-next). How do I tell pipe that the path of git tree is there? rgs Kevin On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Josh Cartwright jo...@eso.teric.us wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:24:28PM +0200,

Re: Question about applying a kernel patch with git am received from a mailing list

2012-11-20 Thread Josh Cartwright
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:53:57PM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Josh Cartwright jo...@eso.teric.us wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:24:28PM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, I am following some kernel mailing lists (netdev and others). I want to be able to