On Sat, 14 May 2022 at 17:11, Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > BTW, I had to manually edit the patch. > It's the second time I see this (I can't find the other one), your patch > didn't apply for the following reason: the a/ and b/ prefixes in the > file paths are missing. Did you use git-format-patch(1) to produce the > patch? Can you reproduce this? > > I CCd the git mailing list in case they know what's going on. Sounds like `git format-patch --no-prefix` at play. Or more likely, that the `diff.noprefix` config is on. I don't think it can be cancelled out by a `--no-no-prefix`, unfortunately. If a script is involved in running `git format-patch`, maybe it's not too tedious to make it do git -c diff.noprefix=no format-patch ... to cancel the config. (If that config really does want to be on, that is.) That said, something like git am -p0 ... should help on the receiving side, by way of skipping fewer path components when applying the patch. Martin
