Git version: git-1.7.7.6-1.fc16.x86_64 I am getting an error with a patch that I am applying to a git repository. I have created a test case for this issue that I am facing.
$ git apply --check 0001-modified-README.patch
fatal: patch fragment without header at line 7: @@ -635,9 +635,7 @@
some_function()
Clearly line 7 appears to be a patch but it isn't. It is the part of
email body or the patch context.
To my understanding, the patch should always be identified whenever
the patch block starts
with a "diff --git", which is line 21 as below:
1 From aa3acc563af0422e6a9f4afc432b7fabdf845d81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2 From: Saleem Ansari <tux...@gmail.com>
3 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:42:58 +0530
4 Subject: [PATCH] modified README
5
6
7 @@ -635,9 +635,7 @@ some_function()
8
9
10 - # a comment here
11 + not a comment
12
13
14
15 thats all folks
16
17 ---
18 README | 1 +
19 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
20
21 diff --git a/README b/README
22 index ce01362..d294257 100644
23 --- a/README
24 +++ b/README
25 @@ -1 +1,2 @@
26 hello
27 +this is a readme
28 --
29 1.7.7.6
30
Apart from changing the patch itself, how else can I work-around this problem?
Steps to create and verify the testcase:
# Create a temporary directory
mkdir /tmp/bug
cd /tmp/bug
git init .
echo "hello" > README
git commit -m "Initial commit"
# create a test branch for verification later
git checkout -b test
# make changes into a different branch
git checkout -b bugger
echo "this is a readme" > README
git commit -m "modified README"
git format-patch HEAD^ # this will generate 0001-modified-README.patch
# Now inside the patch email body add some random patch which should break
# or download the attachment ( 0001-modified-README.patch )
/tuxdna
0001-modified-README.patch
Description: Binary data
