Hi,

I noticed git sometimes strips one path component from the filenames in the
patches mailed to the git-commits mailing lists. This causes problems when
piping these mails through diffstat.

Here is a part of an actual mail received through
git-commits-head@vger.kernel.org to demonstrate this issue:

Is this a current git bug, or a bug in the version used for those mailing
lists?

| commit 94c12cc7d196bab34aaa98d38521549fa1e5ef76
| tree 8e0cec0ed44445d74a2cb5160303d6b4dfb1bc31
| parent 25d83cbfaa44e1b9170c0941c3ef52ca39f54ccc
| author Martin Schwidefsky [off-list ref] 1159455403 +0200
| committer Martin Schwidefsky [off-list ref] 1159455403 +0200

| diff --git a/include/asm-s390/irqflags.h b/include/asm-s390/irqflags.h
| dissimilarity index 65%
| index 3b566a5..3f26131 100644
| --- include/asm-s390/irqflags.h
| +++ include/asm-s390/irqflags.h
      ^^
      woops

| diff --git a/include/asm-s390/lowcore.h b/include/asm-s390/lowcore.h
| index 18695d1..06583ed 100644
| --- a/include/asm-s390/lowcore.h
| +++ b/include/asm-s390/lowcore.h
      ^^
      OK

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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