linux-kernel - Re: Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git?

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Date:   Mon, 31 Oct 2016 06:15:50 -0700
From:   Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>
Cc:     Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git?

On 10/29/2016 02:08 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> Then I could just enable "--binary" and "-M", and see what happens.
>
> Let's see what happens with 4.9-rc3. Will anybody notice? Did I do it right?
>
>              Linus
>

'git apply' works at least. I'll have to spend some time fixing up the
Fedora spec file to use git am instead of just patch.

Thanks,
Laura