Re: Problem with git-apply?

From: Kevin Shanahan <kmshanah@disenchant.net>
Date: Nov 4, 2006, 10:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20061104101200.GC19667@cubit>
In-Reply-To: <eihmas$8sj$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 10:26:13AM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> This I think is a bug, or rather misfeature in git-apply (or at least
> inconsistency between GNU diff and git patch format). But if you change
> from-file line from "--- a/foo" to "--- /dev/null" then git-apply happily
> applies creation patch and creates file.

Thanks. At least that gives me a workaround for now.

Cheers,