From: Tatyana Krasnukha <tatyana@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subversion generates diffs that can contain lines like this one: --- /dev/null (nonexistent) Let's teach Git's apply machinery to handle such a line gracefully. This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/isues/1489 Signed-off-by: Tatyana Krasnukha <tatyana@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- apply.c | 2 +- t/t4135-apply-weird-filenames.sh | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/apply.c b/apply.c index f8b67bfee2c..107aa4c216e 100644 --- a/apply.c +++ b/apply.c @@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ static int gitdiff_verify_name(struct apply_state *state, } free(another); } else { - if (!starts_with(line, "/dev/null\n")) + if (!is_dev_null(line)) return error(_("git apply: bad git-diff - expected /dev/null on line %d"), state->linenr); } diff --git a/t/t4135-apply-weird-filenames.sh b/t/t4135-apply-weird-filenames.sh index b14b8085786..c7c688fcc4b 100755 --- a/t/t4135-apply-weird-filenames.sh +++ b/t/t4135-apply-weird-filenames.sh @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ deleted file mode 100644 - EOF -test_expect_failure 'apply handles a diff generated by Subversion' ' +test_expect_success 'apply handles a diff generated by Subversion' ' >Makefile && git apply -p2 diff-from-svn && test_path_is_missing Makefile -- 2.16.1.windows.1