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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan@jankratochvil.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bugreport: git apply -3 confusing "lacks the necessary blob"
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 20:30:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YR/03XFO3uA5uCF0@host1.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtujkui9v.fsf@gitster.g>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-20 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-18 18:17 bugreport: git apply -3 confusing "lacks the necessary blob" Jan Kratochvil
2021-08-20  9:19 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-08-20  9:26   ` Jan Kratochvil
2021-08-20 17:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-08-20 18:30     ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2021-08-27 15:15     ` Jan Kratochvil
2021-08-27 17:14       ` Junio C Hamano

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