git-apply fails to apply some patches

From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date: Sep 15, 2006, 13:22 UTC
Message-ID: <20060915132225.12040.qmail@a0896f98af57b2.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>

Hi, please see http://bugs.debian.org/386495 or below. I can reproduce the problem with 1.4.2.1.

Thanks, Gerrit.

----- Forwarded message from Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> -----

Trying to apply a patch that was created with interdiff fails ... Here's the first patch (which works)

--- pciutils-2.1.11.orig/debian/dirs +++ pciutils-2.1.11/debian/dirs

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+usr/share/misc
+usr/share/man
+usr/bin
+usr/lib
+usr/share/lintian/overrides
+bin

On top of that, I try to apply this interdiff generated patch:

diff -u pciutils-2.1.11/debian/dirs pciutils-2.1.11/debian/dirs
--- pciutils-2.1.11/debian/dirs
+++ pciutils-2.1.11/debian/dirs
@@ -6,0 +7 @@
+var/lib/pciutils

and git-apply says:

error: debian/dirs: already exists in working directory

I suspect it's confused by the '-x,0' thinking that means "file does not
exist" rather than "we have 0 context for this diff".


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