From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD1B1F404 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2018 15:21:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729791AbeIGUCW (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2018 16:02:22 -0400 Received: from ikke.info ([178.21.113.177]:47066 "EHLO vps892.directvps.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729753AbeIGUCW (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2018 16:02:22 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 316 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:02:21 EDT Received: by vps892.directvps.nl (Postfix, from userid 1008) id 24A624400AB; Fri, 7 Sep 2018 17:15:43 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 17:15:43 +0200 From: Kevin Daudt To: Stephen & Linda Smith Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Mailsplit Message-ID: <20180907151543.GE27205@alpha> References: <6663238.U5hdlisbr1@thunderbird> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6663238.U5hdlisbr1@thunderbird> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 09:17:29PM -0700, Stephen & Linda Smith wrote: > I thought I would use "git mailsplit" to split a mbox file (which downloaded > from public inbox) so that I could attemp to resurrect a patch series for from > a year ago. > > The motivation is that I downloaded the series [1] and applied to a tag from > about the time period that the patch was sent out [2]. > > The "git am -3 patch.mbox quit 2/3 of the way though. I resolved the fix. > and ran "git am --continue" which didn't apply the rest of the patches in the > mbox. > > So two questions: > 1) why would git version 2.18.0 not appear to continue applying the patches. > > 2) where do I find the command "git mailsplit". The onlything in my > installed tree is: > > $ find /usr/local/ -name '*mailsplit*' > /usr/local/share/doc/git-doc/git-mailsplit.txt > /usr/local/share/doc/git-doc/git-mailsplit.html > /usr/local/share/man/man1/git-mailsplit.1 > /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-mailsplit This is the mailsplit command, and should be executed when running `git mailsplit`. What does git --exec-dir return? Kevin