From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:06:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Filename quoting / parsing problem
Message-ID: <m2eim3wns8.fsf@whitebox.home>
In-Reply-To: <7viqbgniq1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> So you can (and I think git-apply does) follow this simple rule:
>
>     If you see +++/---/rename from/rename to/new file/deleted file, use
>     the names you find there.  Otherwise, because there is no rename,
>     "diff --git" lines has two identical names that follow a/ and b/, so
>     use that name.

If you use diff.mnemonicprefix=true then a/ and b/ may be different.

Andreas.

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