Re: git-apply fails on creating a new file, with both -p and --directory specified

James Vega [off-list ref] writes:

It looks like this may have introduced a bug when staging a file
removal.  Here's an example git session showing the issue:
<<snipped>>

Thanks for a report, but I cannot get the evidence that the said patch has
anything to do with the issue you illustrated.

$ cat >patch0 <<\EOF

diff --git a/foo b/foo
deleted file mode 100644
index 257cc56..0000000
--- a/foo
+++ /dev/null

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-foo

EOF
$ git apply --numstat patch0
0	1	foo
$ sed -e '/deleted file/d' patch0 | git apply --numstat
0	1	dev/null

The last one is showing the symptom in your message.  Git versions 1.4.0
and newer yield the same result, but 1.3.0 gives a funny message:

        ** warning: file dev/null becomes empty but is not deleted
        0       1       foo

So it appears that the bug is somewhere else not in that patch.