From: Sam Liddicott <sam@liddicott.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:33:17 GMT
Subject: Re: let git-diff allow patch to delete empty files?
Message-ID: <4912AB20.4070608@liddicott.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081106060940.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>

* Nanako Shiraishi wrote, On 05/11/08 21:09:
> Quoting "Sam Liddicott" <sam@liddicott.com>:
>
>   
>> In some cases "patch" cannot apply diff's generated using git-diff, I've
>> had a "git diff" output look like this when an empty file was removed as
>> the only change:
>>     
>
> Even if you do not use git to manage your changes, you can use "git apply" from outside of a git repository as a replacement for "patch".
>
>   
Good tip, thanks.

In this case it is rpmbuild that is doing the patching, and making git a
build-requires would not be popular.

Sam