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Problem with git-apply?

From
KSKevin Shanahan <kmshanah@disenchant.net>
Date
Nov 4, 2006, 07:23 UTC
Message-ID
<20061104072349.GA19667@cubit>
Hi,

I seem to be having problems using git-apply to apply any patch which creates a new file. Unfortunately it's been a few weeks since I last used git here locally, but this seems like some behaviour change since the last version I was using. I'm currently using version 1.4.3.3 from Debian Sid. This little test script demonstrates the problem I'm having:

#!/bin/sh

mkdir a b repo echo foo > b/foo diff -urN a b > test.diff

(
    cd repo
    echo bar > bar # need something to init the db
    git init-db
    git add .
    git commit -a -m "Test Commit"
    git apply ../test.diff
    git commit -a -m "Test Commit (file added)"
)
Here, this outputs for me:

defaulting to local storage area Committing initial tree ee314a31b622b027c10981acaed7903a3607dbd4 error: foo: No such file or directory nothing to commit

Has something broken or am I doing something wrong here?
Thanks,
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