git apply-diff / am cannot deal with patches generated with git diff/format-patch --noprefix?

marcel partap· Aug 10, 2011, 22:25 UTC · lore

...at least it seems so. -p0 does not help:

> fatal: git apply: bad git-diff - inconsistent old filename on line xx

So it is not possible to have diff.noprefix set as default and generate patches that can be circulated? Or am i missing something there? #regards/marcel

Junio C Hamano· Aug 10, 2011, 22:32 UTC · re: marcel partap · lore

Re: git apply-diff / am cannot deal with patches generated with git diff/format-patch --noprefix?

marcel partap <mpartap@gmx.net> writes:

> ...at least it seems so. -p0 does not help:
>> fatal: git apply: bad git-diff - inconsistent old filename on line xx

Hmm, does not reproduce for me.

$ git checkout v1.7.6 ;# or whatever random commit I had at hand $ git show --no-prefix >P.diff $ grep "^diff --git" P.diff

diff --git Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt
diff --git Documentation/git.txt Documentation/git.txt
diff --git GIT-VERSION-GEN GIT-VERSION-GEN
$ git checkout HEAD^
$ git apply -p0 <P.diff
$ git diff v1.7.6 ; echo nothing
nothing
$ git diff --stat
 Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt |    8 +-------
 Documentation/git.txt            |    5 +++++
 GIT-VERSION-GEN                  |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)