On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 08:57:45AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Jonas Thiel <jonas.lierschied@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Sorry for my late reply. Thanks for your support -- I really appreciate that. > > > > @Jeff: Unfortunately, I do not know how to implement the patch you provided. Can you explain how to do that? > > I think this should do: > > git clone https://github.com/git/git > cd git > # get the email > wget http://public-inbox.org/git/20160921084841.phq7cfbagi5k7ku4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/raw > # apply patch: > git am raw I publish my topic branches via git, too, so it may be easier to replace these steps with: git clone -b jk/ident-canonname https://github.com/peff/git cd git > make > make install After installing, you probably want to do: PATH=/path/to/git/bin-wrappers:$PATH to run the new git (and make sure that any git sub-commands that are run come from the built version, not the rest of the system). I have access to an OS X system, but if I understand the bug correctly, reproducing it may involve re-setting the system hostname, which is not something I'll be able to do. But I'll give it a shot. -Peff