From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:15:08 GMT
Subject: Re: git format-patch --break-rewrites broken in 2.9.3
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608181713440.4924@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <20160818144421.GA9062@aepfle.de>

Hi Olaf,

On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Olaf Hering wrote:

> This command used to create a diff which can be consumed by patch. But
> at least with 2.9.3 it just gives a rename output:
> 
>  git format-patch \
>         --no-signature \
>         --stdout \
>         --break-rewrites \
>         --keep-subject \
>  95fa0405c5991726e06c08ffcd8ff872f7fb4f2d^..95fa0405c5991726e06c08ffcd8ff872f7fb4f2d
> 
> 
> What must be done now to get a usable patch?

Maybe --no-renames? BTW this behavior was not introduced in 2.9.3, but in
2.9.0:

https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.9.0/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt#L7-L9

Ciao,
Johannes