Re: [PATCH] apply: fix copy/rename breakage

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Recently, 7ebd52a (Merge branch 'dz/apply-again', 2008-07-01) taught
"git-apply" to grok a (non-git) patch that is a concatenation of separate
patches that touch the same file number of files, by recording the

Eh, s/files/times/;

postimage of patch application of previous round and using it as the
preimage for later rounds.

However, this "incremental" mode of patch application contradicts with the
way git rename/copy patches are fundamentally designed....
a patch to produce new files out of existing file by copying to fix this
issue.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
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 * Applies to 'master'.  I am CC'ing Linus not because he is in any way
   responsible for this breakage, but because this breakage can affect
   heavy users of "git apply".