Phab failing to apply patches

[Thomas Miedema]

It changed some time last year.

Before, Harbormaster would sometimes try to build some bizarro intermediate
mix of base commit + patch + master. See
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9855.


On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 7:06 PM, Jan Stolarek <jan.stolarek at p.lodz.pl>
wrote:

> Somehow I always I believed that Harbormaster does not apply a patch onto
> master but onto the
> revision it was created from. Has there been any change in this behaviour
> recently?
>
> Janek
>
> Dnia piątek, 15 stycznia 2016, Thomas Miedema napisał:
> > "Unable to apply patch!" means just that. Harbormaster is unable to apply
> > the patch (to master). You can test it yourself by running 'arc patch
> > --nobranch D1778` on an up-to-date checkout of the master branch, and it
> > will fail in the same way.
> >
> > Solution: rebase your patch onto master, and update the Diff. You'll
> notice
> > there are indeed merge problems.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Jan Stolarek <jan.stolarek at p.lodz.pl>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > It seems that Phab is once again failing to apply patches (eg. D1778,
> > > which built perfectly fine
> > > until latest update). Is anyone else experiencing this?
> > >
> > > Janek
> > >
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