Re: git apply: git diff header lacks filename information for git diff --no-index patch

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Oct 4, 2008, 17:08 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810041004290.3208@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810040918290.3208@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> Anyway, for now I'd suggest a patch like this. Hmm? The "diff --git" 
> format assumes that the names are the same, so make it so.

Ahh, never mind, this one is broken. It's not _horribly_ so, but I shouldhave checked the test breakage. It changes non-broken cases from

	diff --git a/file b/file

into

	diff --git a/file a/file

so the header thing would need to be done differently. Don't even bother with that broken patch. I'll think about doing it better.

		Linus