On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:54 PM, David Aguilar <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 07:20:53PM -0300, Thiago Farina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to apply a patch from the mailing list using 'git am'. >> >> What I'm doing is: >> >> - In gmail: >> - Save original, then I copied the content to a text editor. >> - In text editor: >> - Remove the first empty line. >> - Save the file in the same directory where I have the git source. >> - In git directory: >> - $ git am -s ./filename.mbox >> >> Of course I'm doing something wrong here, but I don't know what. >> The error is: >> cat: /home/tfarina/git/.git/rebase-apply/next: No such file or directory >> previous rebase directory /home/tfarina/git/.git/rebase-apply still >> exists but mbox given. > > > Perhaps you tried this previously and 'git am' failed? > In which case, run 'git am --abort'. I didn't try before. > > > Now.. I've _never_ had luck saving patches out of gmail. > But, I've had good luck with its imap interface. > I use mutt, save emails to an mbox file, and use 'git am' > on them. This has worked great for me. Yeah, I tried with Evolution, and it worked for me, so the problem was with Gmail. > > For sending emails to the list, I use msmtp and a > ~/.gitconfig setting: > > > [sendemail] > smtpserver = /usr/bin/msmtp > > > Then it's simply 'git send-email <patch-file>'. > > > Here's a random page explaining how to use mutt with gmail. > http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/using-gmail-with-mutt-the-minimal-way/ > > I can send you my .muttrc if that helps. I'm using send-email to send my patches too. If you could, send me your .muttrc, I will appreciate, may be I can try to use it instead of Evolution. Thanks for your help. ;) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html