From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:10:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Why doesn't git-apply remove empty file
Message-ID: <20080814211034.GE7138@leksak.fem-net>
In-Reply-To: <20080814205447.GC25469@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:21:59PM +0200, Stephan Beyer wrote:
> 
> > Instead of generating reject files it puts conflict markers into the file.
> > (If no context matches at all, then perhaps just insert them at the lines
> > that the hunk header says.)
> > And then declaring the files as "unmerged", so that you can see it in
> > git status.
> 
> I use "git am -3" for that. Then you get conflict markers, or you can
> use git-mergetool.

git am -3 looks for the base blob in the "index" line of the patch.

Now imagine you do not have this blob in git, e.g. because you've not
fetched some large side branch from another repo.
Then git am -3 won't help, too. (Yes, in this example fetching the
branch may help, but there may be other examples.)

Regards,
  Stephan

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