From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:26:09 GMT
Subject: Re: Creating CVS-style patch headers with git-diff
Message-ID: <4D288211.3040806@dbservice.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinx9qM=fjH53UodY0G870Ne3wpFiFEgEGNXxOY7@mail.gmail.com>

  On 1/8/11 2:43 PM, David Chanters wrote:
> Would the presense of the other meta-data, such as the "diff --git"
> line as well as the "Index" line cause any problems when applying this
> patch in CVS (I suppose now, my question doesn't have to apply to CVS

I don't know, you tell me. I've never used CVS.

> at all, more likely it will apply to any file sets)?  I am not sure
> how GNU Patch uses this meta information, and I assume "git diff" adds
> it for a good reason.

gnu patch most likely doesn't use the index line and ignores all the git 
specific additions to the diff format.

tom