git patch does not apply

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I have a certain patch called my pcc branch patch   When I try to apply it  I get following message     git apply --check my pcc branch patch warning  src main java     AbstractedPanel java has type 100644  expected 100755 error  patch failed  src main java     AbstractedPanel java 13 error  src main java     AbstractedPanel java  patch does not apply   What does it mean   How can I fix this problem

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What I looked for is not exactly pointed out in here in SO  I m writing for the benefit of others who might search for similar  I faced an issue with one file  present in old repo  getting removed in the repo  And when I apply the patch  it fails as it couldn t find the file to be applied   so my case is git patch fails for file got removed    git apply --reject  definitely gave a view but didn t quite get me to the fix  I couldn t use wiggle as it is not available for us in our build servers  In my case  I got through this problem by removing the entry of the  file which got removed in the repo  from patch file I ve tried applying  so I got all other changes applied without an issue  using 3 way merge  avoiding white space errors   And then manually merging content of file removed into where its moved

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Try using the solution suggested here  https   www drupal org node 1129120  patch -p1  lt  example patch  This helped me

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My issue is that I ran git diff  then ran git reset --hard HEAD  then realized I wanted to undo  so I tried copying the output from git diff into a file and using git apply  but I got an error that  patch does not apply   After switching to patch and trying to use it  I realized that a chunk of the diff was repeated for some reason  and after removing the duplicate  patch  and presumably also git apply  worked

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In my case I was stupid enough to create the patch file incorrectly in the first place  actually diff-ing the wrong way  I ended up with the exact same error messages   If you re on master and do git diff branch-name  gt  branch-name patch  this tries to remove all additions you want to happen and vice versa  which was impossible for git to accomplish since  obviously  never done additions cannot be removed    So make sure you checkout to your branch and execute git diff master  gt  branch-name patch

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When all else fails  try git apply s --3way option   git apply --3way patchFile patch     --3way   When the patch does not apply cleanly  fall back on 3-way merge if the   patch records the identity of blobs it is supposed to apply to  and we   have those blobs available locally  possibly leaving the conflict   markers in the files in the working tree for the user to resolve  This   option implies the --index option  and is incompatible with the   --reject and the --cached options    Typical fail case applies as much of the patch as it can  and leaves you with conflicts to work out in git however you normally do so  Probably one step easier than the reject alternative

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This command will apply the patch not resolving it leaving bad files as   rej   git apply --reject --whitespace fix mypath patch   You just have to resolve them   Once resolved run   git -am resolved

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git apply --reverse --reject example patch When you created a patch file with the branch names reversed  ie  git diff feature branch  master instead of git diff master  feature branch

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git apply --reject --whitespace fix mychanges patch worked for me  Explanation The --reject option will instruct git to not fail if it cannot determine how to apply a patch  but instead to apply indivdual hunks it can apply and create reject files   rej  for hunks it cannot apply  Wiggle can  quot apply  these  rejected patches and perform word-wise diffs quot   Additionally  --whitespace fix will warn about whitespace errors and try to fix them  rather than refusing to apply an otherwise applicable hunk  Both options together make the application of a patch more robust against failure  but they require additional attention with respect to the result  For the whole documentation  see https   git-scm com docs git-apply

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Johannes Sixt from the msysgit googlegroups com mailing list suggested using following command line arguments   git apply --ignore-space-change --ignore-whitespace mychanges patch   This solved my problem

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WARNING  This command can remove old lost commits PERMANENTLY  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  In short  run the three commands below   git fsck --full git reflog expire --expire now --all git gc --prune now

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It happens when you mix UNIX and Windows git clients because Windows doesn t really have the concept of the  x  bit so your checkout of a rw-r--r--  0644  file under Windows is  promoted  by the msys POSIX layer to be rwx-r-xr-x  0755    git considers that mode difference to be basically the same as a textual difference in the file  so your patch does not directly apply   I think your only good option here is to set core filemode to false  using git-config    Here s a msysgit issue with some related info   http   code google com p msysgit issues detail id 164  rerouted to archive org s 3 Dec 2013 copy

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