[bug-patch] [BUG?] rename patch accepted with --dry-run, rejected without (Re: [PATCH V3] arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c)
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Fri Sep 3 23:21:17 EDT 2010
>
> So "git apply" and "patch --dry-run" seem to work only by accident.
>
> How was this patch generated: with git itself?
I did as usual
git format-patch -M -B -C HEAD~
>
> The fact that "patch --dry-run" may not work for patches that modify the same
> file twice is a known defect. I don't know how to solve this in a reasonably
> elegant way. Luckily the problem only triggers when people are doing
> something "strange" such as concatenating patches.
Best Regards,
J.
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