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Re: Why doesn't git-apply remove empty file

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FMFrancis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 14, 2008, 19:42 UTC
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> and no, git never did that file date thing, so git acts differently from
> GNU patch in this thing (as in so many others, for that matter).
>

Well patch(1) is so used out there that makes git-apply often do the wrong thing for such corner cases when applying a patch made by patch(1).

Maybe git-apply would be more friendly regarding patch(1) if it has an option to emulate GNU patch for some situations. Or if this means adding too many quirks in git-apply code, maybe give the possibity for git-am to use patch(1) instead of git-apply.

-- 
Francis
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