Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> The problem appears that GNU diff _never_ uses "--- /dev/null" or "+++ >> /dev/null" to indicate creation or deletion of the file, but the >> "traditional patch parser" builtin-apply has assumed that is what the >> traditional diff output from day one. Where we got that idea is mystery >> to me (this is Linus's code), but I suspect it is what other SCMs did. > > No, the original code used to trigger a "create" diff on > - source was /dev/null > OR > - source had zero patches. > > It used to have code like >... > and I think the person who broke it was you ;) Sorry, if you followed the threads by now you know I know that. A few messages down there is a fix for the breakage caused by 4be60962, which I'll have in 'maint'. I think it is a time for a 1.4.3.4; these are queued since we did 1.4.3.3. Andy Parkins (2): Minor grammar fixes for git-diff-index.txt git-clone documentation didn't mention --origin as equivalent of -o Christian Couder (3): Remove --syslog in git-daemon inetd documentation examples. Documentation: add upload-archive service to git-daemon. Documentation: add git in /etc/services. Edgar Toernig (1): Use memmove instead of memcpy for overlapping areas J. Bruce Fields (1): Documentation: updates to "Everyday GIT" Jakub Narebski (3): diff-format.txt: Combined diff format documentation supplement diff-format.txt: Correct information about pathnames quoting in patch format gitweb: Check git base URLs before generating URL from it Jan Harkes (1): Continue traversal when rev-list --unpacked finds a packed commit. Johannes Schindelin (1): link_temp_to_file: call adjust_shared_perm() only when we created the directory Junio C Hamano (9): Documentation: clarify refname disambiguation rules. combine-diff: a few more finishing touches. combine-diff: fix hunk_comment_line logic. combine-diff: honour --no-commit-id Surround "#define DEBUG 0" with "#ifndef DEBUG..#endif" quote.c: ensure the same quoting across platforms. revision traversal: --unpacked does not limit commit list anymore. link_temp_to_file: don't leave the path truncated on adjust_shared_perm failure apply: handle "traditional" creation/deletion diff correctly. Nicolas Pitre (1): pack-objects doesn't create random pack names Rene Scharfe (1): git-cherry: document limit and add diagram - 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