From: Colin McCabe <cmccabe@alumni.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:09:09 GMT
Subject: bug: when applying binary diffs, -p0 is ignored
Message-ID: <CA+qbEUOw9zR1_kdXU=mB8_KADq2NRT_qxSvGT+SfS55dUM8j6A@mail.gmail.com>

I found a bug in git's handling of binary diff segments.

When applying binary diffs using -p0, the prefix (or --strip) argument
is ignored.

For example, try this:
git apply -p0 --binary <<'EOF'
diff --git a/init.tar.gz a/init.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..
         386b94f511a17a8a3d62eb6cec14694cb9b9b51d
GIT binary patch
literal 118
zcmb2|=3qGT-8_JS`RzGFp(Y0bmIKvX{ySXzs`-OhSfm*K#a}SG%CY!eN_LjnjGuP-
zFH<V7m)|X1{OzyyaqIde8O2kg^q0P?b&0-p<;muDS-IC{I=+*S-L~Mn{_^zwEo=Tu
UurR>Dep|-nAGgFaXfQAU0L+LoA^-pY

literal 0
HcmV?d00001

EOF

It will create init.tar.gz, but in the root of the repository, not in a/

(Sorry if my mailer wraps the long index line)

cheers,
Colin McCabe