[Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>,
Imre Deak <imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx>]
Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 09:27:36PM +0300, Imre Deak wrote:
>
>> $ git apply patch
>> fatal: git diff header lacks filename information (line 4)
>> $ cat patch
>> diff --git a/dev/null b/a
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1f2a4f5ef3df7f7456d91c961da36fc58904f2f1
>> GIT binary patch
>
> Hmm. The problem is that "git apply" doesn't accept that "a/dev/null"
> and "b/a" are the same, so it rejects them as a name. I
Shouldn't it be "/dev/null", not "a/dev/null"?
Besides git-diff(1) states:
1. It is preceded with a "git diff" header, that looks like
this:
diff --git a/file1 b/file2
The `a/` and `b/` filenames are the same unless rename/copy is
involved. Especially, even for a creation or a deletion,
`/dev/null` is _not_ used in place of `a/` or `b/` filenames.
Looks like a bug in patch generation code...
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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