Hmph. I do not know what went wrong. Somebody between your "git format-patch" and the mailing list archive ate tabs and spitted out spaces, it seems. I'll try to fix it up. Thanks. $ git am -s ./+ec .git/rebase-apply/patch:13: indent with spaces. .rec = rec, .git/rebase-apply/patch:14: indent with spaces. .index = i, .git/rebase-apply/patch:15: indent with spaces. }; .git/rebase-apply/patch:17: indent with spaces. merged_iter_pqueue_add(&mi->pq, &e); .git/rebase-apply/patch:18: indent with spaces. } error: patch failed: reftable/merged.c:36 error: reftable/merged.c: patch does not apply error: patch failed: reftable/pq.c:71 error: reftable/pq.c: patch does not apply error: patch failed: reftable/pq_test.c:46 error: reftable/pq_test.c: patch does not apply hint: Use 'git am --show-current-patch=diff' to see the failed patch Applying: reftable: use a pointer for pq_entry param Patch failed at 0001 reftable: use a pointer for pq_entry param