On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 08:25:26AM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > > I tried applying the patch and building it locally. For some reason I > couldn't see the change in effect. What could I be missing? > Did you make sure you used the git you built, and also the relevant subcommands? What does `which git` and git --exec-path return? If you did not install git, but try to run it in the compiled dir, you can better run bin-wrappers/git, which will make sure the correct sub commands are run.