On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 09:15:53PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > I had the following error already a few times, when some contributors, > for some reason unknown to me, remove the leading path components from > the patch. The reason is probably that they have set diff.noprefix in their config, and git-format-patch respects that. Which is arguably a bug. There's a little discussion in this message, along with references to some previous discussions: https://lore.kernel.org/git/ZAWnDUkgO5clf6qu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > Now I know that the fix is to use -p0, but the first times it wasn't > obvious. And still I forget about -p0 sometimes and it's hard to find > in the manual pages. I think it would be good to suggest using it > when such an error appears. I agree it may be reasonable to have "git am" be more helpful on the receiving side. Hopefully if format-patch is changed then you wouldn't see the situation as often, but it could still happen. -Peff
