From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:51:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Creating CVS-style patch headers with git-diff
Message-ID: <4D288804.2050204@dbservice.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=_YdTsvFboQAj447SUtcxrVhM18QkvSVdpvdMJ@mail.gmail.com>

  On 1/8/11 4:35 PM, David Chanters wrote:
> Sorry about that, that's poor wording on my part.  I don't mean "CVS
> won't barf" -- I meant that GNU Patch can still apply the patch
> without the meta-data referencing git still.  I think though this
> "--no-prefix" option might just do it.

Update your gnu patch. Never versions know how to handle the git 
specific metadata (gnu patch simply ignores it).

And the a/, b/ prefix is *not* git specific. Pretty much all versions of 
a patch program know how to deal with that, you just need to use -p1 on 
the commandline.

tom