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On 3/22/22 13:56, nick black wrote:
> Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) left as an exercise for the reader:
>> Patch applied.
>> However, it's weird:  I had to apply the following to your patch before
>> applying it with `git am`:
>>
>> /^diff --git/s, man4, a/man4,
>> /^diff --git/s, man4, b/man4,
>> /^--- man4/s, man4, a/man4,
>> /^+++ man4/s, man4, b/man4,
>>
>> I'm curious, how did you generate the patch?
> 
> i bounced this out from ~/Mail/sent, and have no idea how i
> originally created it, sorry =\. i'm assuming git email-send?
> 

Yeah, I guessed that you used git format-patch && git send-email, 
especially since there's a git version at the end of the patch.  The 
weird thing is that git always (AFAIK) writes (and needs) those a/ and 
b/ prefixes, so... I don't know.

If it repeats, I'll try to investigate the reason.

Thanks!

Alex

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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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