Hi,
I think that's because I set it up to use attachments (Luda asked me to).
The E-Mail, raw as git send-email sent it, looks like this:
From 7e7c30119aebab0ee48c4e55d8c7471f0fde487c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 09:44:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Simplify dtc package definition.
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------2.9.1"
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------2.9.1
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=fixed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
---
gnu/packages/u-boot.scm | 10 +++-------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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Content-Type: text/x-patch;
name="0001-gnu-Simplify-dtc-package-definition.patch"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="0001-gnu-Simplify-dtc-package-definition.patch"
diff --git a/gnu/packages/u-boot.scm b/gnu/packages/u-boot.scm
index e9a4b90..7949d8a 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/u-boot.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/u-boot.scm
@@ -47,15 +47,11 @@
("flex" ,flex)))
(arguments
`(#:make-flags
- (list "CC=gcc" (string-append "PREFIX=" (assoc-ref %outputs "out")))
+ (list "CC=gcc"
+ (string-append "PREFIX=" (assoc-ref %outputs "out"))
+ "INSTALL=install")
#:phases
(modify-phases %standard-phases
- (add-after 'unpack 'patch-paths
- (lambda _
- (substitute* "Makefile"
- (("/usr/bin/install") "install"))
- (substitute* "Makefile"
- (("PREFIX = \\$\\(HOME\\)") ""))))
(delete 'configure))))
(home-page "https://www.devicetree.org";)
(synopsis "Compiles device tree source files")
--------------2.9.1--
Note the MIME header.
I tried
$ git am ~/src/outgoing-dtc/0001-gnu-Simplify-dtc-package-definition.patch
Applying: gnu: Simplify dtc package definition.
So it seems to work.
