On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 05:44:13PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > The first patch adds accents to a few names in the NEWS file; > since this file is now UTF-8 it will support accented letters. I have applied last two patches only. It seems like a problem with email encoding, my mutt see the attachments as 0001-docs-NEWS-add-some-missing-accents- [text/x-patch, base64, us-ascii, 6.3K] What about to send the patches by git-send? ..or use tar ball if canot use git-send. Karel $ git am -i -3 ~/00*.patch Commit Body is: -------------------------- docs: NEWS: add some missing accents, since this is now UTF-8 Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -------------------------- Apply? [y]es/[n]o/[e]dit/[v]iew patch/[a]ccept all y Applying: docs: NEWS: add some missing accents, since this is now UTF-8 Using index info to reconstruct a base tree... error: patch failed: NEWS:347 error: NEWS: patch does not apply Did you hand edit your patch? It does not apply to blobs recorded in its index. Cannot fall back to three-way merge. Patch failed at 0001 docs: NEWS: add some missing accents, since this is now UTF-8 The copy of the patch that failed is found in: /home/projects/util-linux/util-linux/.git/rebase-apply/patch When you have resolved this problem, run "git am --resolved". If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead. To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort". -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html