Re: Problem with git-apply?

> Kevin Shanahan <kmshanah@disenchant.net> writes:
>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> mkdir a b repo
>> echo foo > b/foo
>> diff -urN a b > test.diff
>
> It is *very* surprising that this issue did not come up earlier,
> given that we used to use GNU diff internally to generate our
> own diff.
>
> If you cat the test.diff file, you will see "a/foo" and "b/foo",
> not "/dev/null".
>
> The problem appears that GNU diff _never_ uses "--- /dev/null"
> or "+++ /dev/null" to indicate creation or deletion of the file,
> but the "traditional patch parser" builtin-apply has assumed
> that is what the traditional diff output from day one.  Where we
> got that idea is mystery to me (this is Linus's code), but I
> suspect it is what other SCMs did.