Phab failing to apply patches

[Jan Stolarek]

Can we somehow force Phab to apply a patch against a base commit from which the patch was created? 
Current setting does not seem very useful - it will probably force me to rebase my patches once a 
week or so. That will be very painful.

Janek

Dnia piątek, 15 stycznia 2016, Thomas Miedema napisał:
> 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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