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Re: git apply: git diff header lacks filename information for git diff --no-index patch

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 5, 2008, 19:21 UTC
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<20081005192128.GC6173@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<alpine.LFD.2.00.0810041031580.3208@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 10:48:08AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, so here's a much better version, I think.

Yes, this approach makes sense to me after reading your other explanation as well as Jakub's pointer to git-diff(1).

And it passes my test. ;)

I'll squash in my test case, add a little context to the commit message, and send it to Shawn.

-Peff
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