git-am from git-1.1.6 refuses to apply the following two patches, whereas patch(1) sees nothing wrong with them... The error messages look like: : smyrno 46 ; git-am /tmp/\[klibc]\ Add\ swap\ support\ to\ fstype,\ second\ version.eml Applying 'Add swap support to fstype, second version' error: patch fragment without header at line 4: @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ error: patch fragment without header at line 13: @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ error: patch fragment without header at line 21: @@ -49,6 +50,9 @@ error: patch fragment without header at line 31: @@ -182,6 +186,19 @@ error: patch fragment without header at line 50: @@ -189,17 +206,18 @@ error: patch fragment without header at line 83: @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ fatal: No changes Patch failed at 0001. The patches are meant to be apply to the top of: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/klibc/klibc.git HEAD = ea6af2b08cb18ba60e55c5e8f0f65ddac1672ca0 -hpa