Re: `ab | (cd cd && git apply -)' fails with v2.0.0

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Jul 24, 2014, 14:22 UTC
Message-ID: <53D116B9.3050809@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <20140724142945.iERQ798d%sdaoden@yandex.com>

Steffen Nurpmeso venit, vidit, dixit 24.07.2014 15:29:

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> Hello (again, psssssst, after a long time),
> 
> it happened yesterday that i needed to do
> 
>   $ git diff HEAD:FILE COMMIT:SAME-FILE |
>   > (cd src && git apply -) 
> 
> but found that didn't work with v2.0.0 (silently succeeds?, doing
> nothing).  It works without the subshell and the cd(1); i had to
> use `(cd src && patch -p2)' instead to keep in going.
> Just in case that is not known yet (i've updated my git(1) repo,
> but in the 1466 commits in between nothing sprung into my eye
> regarding apply, and a Gmane search didn't, too).
> No need to Cc: me, please just fix it; thank you.
> Ciao,
> 
> --steffen
>

Ah little more context would help. Are you diffing files in the subdir src, or a file at the root which happens to be present in the subdir src as well?

Michael