Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > I noticed something very odd with git am, and have been able to narrow > it down to a minimal example. > > git init tmp > cd tmp > mkdir -p foo/bar/baz > cd foo/bar/baz > echo file > file > git add file > git commit -m "1" > echo other > other > echo more >> file > git add file other > git commit -m "my test" > git format-patch HEAD~.. > git reset --hard HEAD~ > # apply the patch in the current directory, chop off the leading directories > git am -3 -p 3 0001-my-test.patch > cd ../../.. > git ls-files > > Expected output: > foo/bar/baz/file > foo/bar/baz/other > > Actual output: > baz/other # the file addition was applied to the root of the > repository, instead of the current directory > foo/bar/baz/file # the file modification was correctly applied, yay > > Is this expected behavior? As you are doing -3 (not the -p3), it would have: * noticed that the patch is trying to update "baz/file"; * noticed that there is no "baz/file" but it could salvage the patch by doing a three-way merge, in case that the patch was prepared against a tree that moved path "foo/bar/baz" to "baz"; and * such a three-way merge succeeds cleanly for a path whose movement was detected correctly. So it does not look odd at all to me (the use of "-p 3" does look odd, but I know this is an effort to come up with a minimum example, so it is understandable that it may look contribed ;-). -- 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