On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 19:40:12 +0200, Junio C Hamano wrote: > But I think Jan is talking about the case where users get a patch > that lacks the "index" information out of other people's "diff" > implementation and try to "apply -3" without realizing that it is > not Git's "diff" output. Yes. > Perhaps something like the attached patch would be a good start. It does fix the problem for me, thanks! Jan