git apply does not honor diff.noprefix config setting

If I disable mnemonic prefix,

$ git config --global diff.noprefix true

and do a round-trip of format-patch and apply,

$ git format-patch -1 @ $ git apply <some-file.patch>

git apply fails with,

error: git diff header lacks filename information when removing 1 leading pathname component (line 16)

Without 'diff.noprefix' config setting, git apply works. It seems git apply does not honor the diff.noprefix config setting.

Thanks, Rish