Patch failed to apply cleanly

Manually fixing up rejects Often, the simplest way to deal with rejects is to open all the resulting. Getting help from Mercurial If you know what version of a project a patch applies to, you can get help from Mercurial. It may not always be possible to tell which version of a project a patch applies to.

If a patch was generated by ' hg export ', it will include a 'parent' header that contains the right version. Otherwise a little guesswork with update and import should suffice. But other times, I still get the "patch does not apply", even though the patch should apply without issues. Show 5 more comments. This is the answer that worked for me. The file I was patching didn't reflect the changes that I generated the patch from because I deleted the changes after I created the patch.

Nice general solution. The 3way diff didn't look like it normally does so a little confused by that but never the less this gave me the ability to resolve the conflict and get the patch to apply. I think this way should be the default behavior. When patching fails, at least tell me what failed so that I can manually fix it.

Definitely, the best solution. Let the user resolve his own conflicts! Doesn't work for me in the case where the issues are caused by whitespace differences. I never get a prompt, and way doesn't actually apply anything. Show 3 more comments. Once resolved run: git -am resolved. Mathias Bynens k 52 52 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Ivan Voroshilin Ivan Voroshilin 4, 3 3 gold badges 30 30 silver badges 57 57 bronze badges. Any other way? This command will apply changes from.

Please, checkout documentation to get more info about wiggle — goodniceweb. Pini Cheyni Pini Cheyni 4, 1 1 gold badge 34 34 silver badges 48 48 bronze badges.

Saved me hours. I was getting "patch does not apply" and all sorts of errors. SridharSarnobat The command is patch , not git patch. See patch 1 — HeySora. Ben Jackson Ben Jackson I tried to run the command "git config core. Assuming you have no un-committed changes in your tree, try git reset --hard HEAD to force git to re-checkout your files with the new option in effect. Just tried it out execute "git reset --hard HEAD". Ophidian Ophidian 6 6 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges.

I made the same mistake, look at chimurai answer stackoverflow. Make a copy of your entire repository before attempting this. I have found this link I have no idea why this works but I tried many work arounds and this is the only one that worked for me.

Solomon Ucko 2, 2 2 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 36 36 bronze badges. Archmede Archmede 1, 1 1 gold badge 14 14 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. This is a very dangerous command that can remove old lost commits forever from the reflog. Solomon Ucko Solomon Ucko 2, 2 2 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 36 36 bronze badges. VirendraKumar I manually edited the diff file to remove the duplicate lines. I then used patch. MShubat MShubat 2 2 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges.

Gerson Montenegro Gerson Montenegro 4 4 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Log here. I cannot reproduce the errors and I want to be certain that your issues are not caused by any of the other failing mods.

Updating to the latest hot patch for 1. I'm a little boggled by this since they came out after your updates to 1. The Trace logs are intentional. Some patches have multiple versions and it just tries them until one works, but if none of them work I still need all the error messages to see what goes wrong.

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