git apply fails with 'error: git apply: failed to read: No such file or directory'

What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) git clone https://github.com/dotnet/llvm-project git -C llvm-project diff --patch --binary --output ../llvm.patch 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904..30e9e6bc2e9f04e0a75daf4b8088ee91f66069da -- ':(glob)**/*' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.dll' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.Dll' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.exe' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.pdb' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.mdb' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.zip' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.nupkg' mkdir foo git -C foo init git -C foo apply --cached --ignore-space-change ../llvm.patch

What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) Patch should be created and applied to another folder

What happened instead? (Actual behavior) git apply fails with 'error: git apply: failed to read: No such file or directory' (and returns 128)

What's different between what you expected and what actually happened? There is no error. I tried -v, --reject etc but wasn't able to get any details.

Anything else you want to add: This happens in both Windows and Linux environments.

I tried analyzing file handlers via procmon.exe and could not see anything. git reads the whole patch and then shuts down. No indication of a file it is trying to open.

I tried excluding more files from the patch and then I was able to create/apply the patch, like so:

git -C llvm-project diff --patch --binary --output ../llvm.patch 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904..30e9e6bc2e9f04e0a75daf4b8088ee91f66069da -- ':(glob)**/*' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.dll' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.Dll' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.exe' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.pdb' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.mdb' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.zip' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.nupkg' ':(exclude,glob)bolt' ':(exclude,glob)clang/docs' ':(exclude,glob)clang/www' ':(exclude,glob)flang' ':(exclude,glob)libclc' ':(exclude,glob)lldb' ':(exclude,glob)llvm/docs' ':(exclude,glob)mlir' ':(exclude,glob)openmp' ':(exclude,glob)polly' ':(exclude,glob)pstl' ':(exclude,glob)third-party' ':(exclude,glob)**/tests/**'

But if I do the opposite and create a patch with only the previously excluded files, I'd expect that it breaks. But this works as well!

git -C llvm-project diff --patch --binary --output ../llvm.patch 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904..30e9e6bc2e9f04e0a75daf4b8088ee91f66069da -- ':(glob)bolt' ':(glob)clang/docs' ':(glob)clang/www' ':(glob)flang' ':(glob)libclc' ':(glob)lldb' ':(glob)llvm/docs' ':(glob)mlir' ':(glob)openmp' ':(glob)polly' ':(glob)pstl' ':(glob)third-party' ':(glob)**/tests/**' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.dll' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.Dll' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.exe' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.pdb' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.mdb' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.zip' ':(exclude,glob)**/*.nupkg'

Only when they are together, git fails. Size of the patch is 1GB but I've had 3GB patches apply successfully before.

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[System Info] git version: git version 2.41.0.windows.1 cpu: x86_64 built from commit: ff94e79c4724635915dbb3d4ba38f6bb91528260 sizeof-long: 4 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: /bin/sh feature: fsmonitor--daemon uname: Windows 10.0 22621 compiler info: gnuc: 13.1 libc info: no libc information available $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): <unset>

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