Re: [BUG?] rename patch accepted with --dry-run, rejected without (Re: [PATCH V3] arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c)

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Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> git patches include additional metadata for renaming files, which gnu patch
> will not understand.
>
> If you want GNU patch compatible diffs, don't use -C or -M when generating
> patches out of git.

Fyi: actually, GNU patch will support git-style patches in the next
version according to

http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6320

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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