Matthias Lehmann wrote: > Hi all, > > the subject of this mail may read familiar to some - there was a > discussion in November last year (see > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2009/11/23/16899/) concerning this > problem. > > Today I had this same issue with git 1.7.0.4. Reading the above mentioned > discussion and seaching the net did not help me in finding a solution to > the problem. > > I have to apply patches from one repository to another repository, which > have a different layout (I am working on splitting one big repository into > several smaller ones, while development still continues on the big > repository). > > So I did > > big-repo$ git format-patche -o /tmp/foo > small-repo$ git apply -p2 --directory=some/path --check /tmp/foo/* > > and get > > fatal: git diff header lacks filename information when removing 2 leading > pathname components (line 37) > > the patch looks like this: > > 35| diff --git a/xyz/bar.jpg b/xyz/bar.jpg > 36| new file mode 100644 > 37| index > 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3dcce2e1f68586ed2089d86b1bf4e7e41c818d97 > 38| GIT binary patch > 39| literal 8791 > > > > Since this problem was discussed before - is there a solution? > This is something like a showstopper for me right now, so I am very > thankful for any hints. > > Best regards, > > Mat Is there anything I can do to get some feedback to this issue? I don't want to be impatient, it's just quite important to me. Since I have not much experience in reporting issues to a mailing list, it might well be, that I did something wrong - so please correct me and direct me to how I can be of better help. Best regards, Mat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html