Certain invocations of "git apply --3way" will print error messages even though git is able to fall back on apply_fragments and apply the patch successfully with a return value of 0. To fix, return early from try_threeway() in the following cases: When the patch is a rename and no lines have changed. In this case, "git diff" doesn't record the blob info, so 3way is neither possible nor necessary. When the patch is an addition and there is no add/add conflict, i.e. direct_to_threeway is false. In this case, threeway will fail since the preimage is not in cache, but isn't necessary anyway since there is no conflict. Only error messaging is affected and other behavior does not change. Signed-off-by: Jerry Zhang <jerry@xxxxxxxxxx> --- apply.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/apply.c b/apply.c index 8c5b29809b..a36d4002ca 100644 --- a/apply.c +++ b/apply.c @@ -3560,7 +3560,9 @@ static int try_threeway(struct apply_state *state, /* No point falling back to 3-way merge in these cases */ if (patch->is_delete || - S_ISGITLINK(patch->old_mode) || S_ISGITLINK(patch->new_mode)) + S_ISGITLINK(patch->old_mode) || S_ISGITLINK(patch->new_mode) || + (patch->is_new && !patch->direct_to_threeway) || + (patch->is_rename && !patch->lines_added && !patch->lines_deleted)) return -1; /* Preimage the patch was prepared for */ -- 2.29.0
