Re: [BUG?] Patches created with 'diff.noprefix=true' don't 'git apply'.

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: May 6, 2014, 01:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20140506015927.GV9218@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAO8RVveV4SgXmJzWpYnyB3rnQALQkrrLNtLL5Ej5Y9Mjjekmmw@mail.gmail.com>

Nathan Collins wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Nathan Collins wrote:

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>>> git show | git apply --reverse
>>
>> The following which only uses plumbing commands should work:
>>
>>         git diff-tree -p HEAD^! |
>>         git apply --reverse
>
> Nice! However, I don't now how to generalize this solution to other
> (probably insane) use cases, e.g.
>
>   git log -S<string> --patch | git apply --reverse

This should do it:

	git rev-list HEAD |
	git diff-tree --no-commit-id -p -S<string> --stdin |
	git apply --reverse

More generally, when scripting plumbing commands tend to do the right thing.

Will think more about the documentation and other parts (or if someone else sends a patch before I can, I won't mind).

Thanks, Jonathan