On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:07:27AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > If that is the case, I would rather say we should even shoot for > simpler. Just tell the patch generator not to include unneeded double > slashes. I don't have a choice about the patch generator. These are humans typing "diff -ur foo.orig/ foo/" which I think is reasonable. IMHO, this is a bug in git-apply's -p behaviour. It's not so much about stripping double slashes; more about doing the -p split in the middle of the doubled slashes rather than the end. patch does the right thing. -- 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