On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 03:17:28PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > Yes, I noticed that, as well. And obviously it looks bogus, but I > thought I managed to get "git diff" to produce "a/dev/null" on some > otherwise valid input, and so assumed that was something we were able to > work around in applying the patch. But testing again today, I can't seem > to get anything except this broken diff to say "a/dev/null". So probably > I was just mistaken yesterday. Ah, I found it. It was the fact that _text_ diffs using --no-index also generate that bogosity. But of course they work fine, since we just reject the "default" name from the "diff --git" line, but end up getting the names from the "---" and "+++" lines. -Peff -- 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