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Re: Git Bug - diff in commit message.

From
Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2011, 16:26 UTC
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On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 14:49, anikey <arty.anikey@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi, peops. I'm pretty much sure that's a bug.
>
> What I did was putting git diff (i needed to tell people that for my changes
> to start working they needed to aplly message-inline patch to some code
> which was not under git) in commit message. Like adding:
>
> diff --git a/app/controllers/settings_controller.rb
> b/app/controllers/settings_controller.rb
> index 937da74..0e8440d 100644
> --- a/app/controllers/settings_controller.rb
> +++ b/app/controllers/settings_controller.rb
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class SettingsController < ApplicationController
>   end
>
>   def snmp_mibs
> -    render layout: 'ext3'
> +    render layout: 'ext3_2'
>   end
>
>   def cfg_auth_keys(auth_type=:all)
>
> though the commit itself didn't contain that change. So while `git rebase
> some_branch_name` I started getting:
>
> First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
> Applying: My cool patch.
> fatal: sha1 information is lacking or useless
> (app/controllers/settings_controller.rb).
> Repository lacks necessary blobs to fall back on 3-way merge.
> Cannot fall back to three-way merge.
> Patch failed at 0001 My cool patch.
>
> When you have resolved this problem run "git rebase --continue".
> If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run "git rebase --skip".
> To restore the original branch and stop rebasing run "git rebase --abort".
Ha!

It would appear that `git rebase' is in fact producing patches with `git format-patch' and then applying the resulting patches with `git am', which gets confused by your inline diff; this can be clearly seen in the `git-rebase--am[.sh]' file.

Perhaps `git rebase' should be reimplemented to use `git cherry-pick', or does that suffer from the same problem?

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Message 2 of 9 in “Git Bug - diff in commit message.”
  1. anikeySep 8, 2011
  2. Michael WittenSep 8, 2011
  3. Thomas RastSep 9, 2011
  4. Johannes SixtSep 9, 2011
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 9, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 11, 2011
  7. Martin von ZweigbergkOct 24, 2011
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 25, 2011
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2011

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