If a non-standard prefix is used by --no-prefix, --src-prefix, or --dst-prefix options, the resulting diff becomes something git-apply would not grok. In such a case, we should not trigger the more strict check git-apply does for patches in "diff --git" format. This checks the prefix specified when generating diff. If src and dst prefix are not one-level of directory name followed by a slash (i.e. the standard "diff --git a/foo b/foo" is fine, a custom "diff --git l/foo k/foo" is Ok, but "diff --git foo foo" is NOT Ok), we are generating with a custom prefix that would fail git-apply's stricter check. In such a case, we do not say "diff --git" but just say "diff" in the header. Metainformation (e.g. "index", "similarity", etc.) lines will safely be ignored by patch and git-apply (even when the latter parses a non-git diff output), so this patch does not bother stripping them away. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- * I am signing this off, but I am not thinking straight today and did not test it, so I will not commit it for now and leave it in the list archive, to be commented on. diff.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c index b18c140..8321492 100644 --- a/diff.c +++ b/diff.c @@ -1233,6 +1233,18 @@ static const char *diff_funcname_pattern(struct diff_filespec *one) return NULL; } +static int with_standard_prefix(struct diff_options *o) +{ + const char *slash; + slash = strchr(o->a_prefix, '/'); + if (!slash || slash[1]) + return 0; + slash = strchr(o->b_prefix, '/'); + if (!slash || slash[1]) + return 0; + return 1; +} + static void builtin_diff(const char *name_a, const char *name_b, struct diff_filespec *one, @@ -1246,12 +1258,15 @@ static void builtin_diff(const char *name_a, char *a_one, *b_two; const char *set = diff_get_color_opt(o, DIFF_METAINFO); const char *reset = diff_get_color_opt(o, DIFF_RESET); + const char *gitdiff; + + gitdiff = with_standard_prefix(o) ? " --git" : ""; a_one = quote_two(o->a_prefix, name_a + (*name_a == '/')); b_two = quote_two(o->b_prefix, name_b + (*name_b == '/')); lbl[0] = DIFF_FILE_VALID(one) ? a_one : "/dev/null"; lbl[1] = DIFF_FILE_VALID(two) ? b_two : "/dev/null"; - printf("%sdiff --git %s %s%s\n", set, a_one, b_two, reset); + printf("%sdiff%s %s %s%s\n", set, gitdiff, a_one, b_two, reset); if (lbl[0][0] == '/') { /* /dev/null */ printf("%snew file mode %06o%s\n", set, two->mode, reset); - 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