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From: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 08:16:15AM +0100, Alexander Stein wrote:
> I tried to use git ptx-patches fromwithin a package and noticed it doesn't work.
> I could track down the problem to this command (from scripts/git-ptx-patches):
> > man git-format-patch | grep -q -e --notes
> 
> Executing this command manually results in this error message:
> > Error executing formatting or display command.
> > System command (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".pl 11i"; /bin/bzip2 -c -d '/usr/share/man/man1/git-format-patch.1.bz2') | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc | less) exited with status 141.
> > No manual entry for git-format-patch
> 
> Interestingly executing
> > (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".pl 11i"; /bin/bzip2 -c -d '/usr/share/man/man1/git-format-patch.1.bz2') | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc | less) | grep -q -e --notes
> works as expected. I have no idea what's wrong here.

Maybe this is caused by some aliases or interactive/non-ineractive magic.
Does it help to replace "man git-format-patch" with "git format-patch
--help" or "man -P cat git-format-patch"?

Michael

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