On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 04:44:21PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > This command used to create a diff which can be consumed by patch. But > at least with 2.9.3 it just gives a rename output: > > git format-patch \ > --no-signature \ > --stdout \ > --break-rewrites \ > --keep-subject \ > 95fa0405c5991726e06c08ffcd8ff872f7fb4f2d^..95fa0405c5991726e06c08ffcd8ff872f7fb4f2d > > > What must be done now to get a usable patch? Probably --no-renames. Renames were enabled by default by 5404c11 (diff: activate diff.renames by default, 2016-02-25), which is in v2.9.0. I wonder if we should consider undoing that for format-patch, whose output may be consumed by non-git endpoints. -Peff -- 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