Help with git

[Nick Krause]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Sudip Mukherjee
<sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 8, 2014 7:32 AM, "Nick Krause" <xerofoify at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:00 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 21:48:54 -0400, Nick Krause said:
>> >
>> >> sed: can't read /home/nick/linux-next/.git/rebase-apply/info: No such
>> >> file or directory
>> >
>> > It usually helps if you give the actual command that you were trying to
>> > do.
>> >
>> > You didn't do this on top of a linux-next tree that you did a 'git pull'
>> > to
>> > update, did you?
>> >
>> No I just pulled it down and didn't do anything else, is that bad practice
>> and I
>> should have used git fetch instead?
>> Nick
>>
>
> can you please post the git commands that you have used to initialize the
> git and how did you pulled it down and how are you syncing with linux-next
> tree??
> and ofcourse what command you are using to apply the patch , the folder
> where the patch is and the the folder where linux-next tree and also mention
> your cwd when you are trying to apply the patch.
>
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Sure here they are
1. git clone linux-next
2. git add file changed
3. git commit
4. git format-patch -1 -s
5. git add patch
6. git am
Then it fails with the above message.
Cheers Nick