Re: [PATCH 4/5] coccinelle: put sane filenames into output patches

> Coccinelle outputs its suggested transformations as patches, whose
> header looks something like this:
>
>    --- commit.c
>    +++ /tmp/cocci-output-19250-7ae78a-commit.c
>
> Note the lack of 'diff --opts <old> <new>' line, the differing number
> of path components on the --- and +++ lines, and the nonsensical
> filename on the +++ line.  'patch -p0' can still apply these patches,
> as it takes the filename to be modified from the --- line.  Alas, 'git
> apply' can't, because it takes the filename from the +++ line, and
> then complains about the nonexisting file.
>
> Pass the '--patch .' options to Coccinelle via the SPATCH_FLAGS 'make'
> variable, as it seems to make it generate proper context diff patches,
> with the header starting with a 'diff ...' line and containing sane
> filenames.  The resulting 'contrib/coccinelle/*.cocci.patch' files
> then can be applied both with 'git apply' and 'patch' (even without
> '-p0').
>
> Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
> ---
>   Makefile | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 73e2d16926..72ea29df4e 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ SPATCH = spatch
>   export TCL_PATH TCLTK_PATH
>   
>   SPARSE_FLAGS =
> -SPATCH_FLAGS = --all-includes
> +SPATCH_FLAGS = --all-includes --patch .