strange problems applying --no-prefix patch with -p0 and added files

Hello.
I am trying to apply a patch made via {git diff somehash^ somehash >
....} before (same version of Git, same machine). I have no-prefix
enabled by default.
If I try to apply the patch with -p0, it fails.
If I go to a directory where all the changed files are ("src/" below)
to "simulate" the prefix for -p1, it silently does nothing.
Only if I make it a -p1 patch, it actually tries to do apply (and
applies the new files that cause problems in -p0 alright too, if used
with --reject).

I am relatively new to git, so while researching I realized I might be
using wrong ways to do things (e.g. not using cherry-pick), but this
seems like a bug regardless.

Here's the log of my interactions with git:

reznor-mbp:git-hbase-089 sergey$ git version
git version 1.7.10.2 (Apple Git-33)
reznor-mbp:git-hbase-089 sergey$ git status
# On branch 0.94
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#    HBASE-6371.patch
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
reznor-mbp:git-hbase-089 sergey$ git apply -p0 HBASE-6371.patch
fatal: git apply: bad git-diff - inconsistent new filename on line 128
reznor-mbp:git-hbase-089 sergey$ sed -n 125,129p HBASE-6371.patch

diff --git src/main/java/org/apache/

hadoop/hbase/regionserver/CompactSelection.java
src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/CompactSelection.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a9ee0d4

--- /dev/null
+++ src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/CompactSelection.java

reznor-mbp:git-hbase-089 sergey$ cd src
reznor-mbp:src sergey$ git apply -p1 -v --whitespace=nowarn ../HBASE-6371.patch
[ there's nothing here, e.g. no output ]
reznor-mbp:src sergey$ git status
# On branch 0.94
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#    ../HBASE-6371.patch
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
reznor-mbp:src sergey$ cd ..
reznor-mbp:git-hbase-089 sergey$ sed -E "s/(--git|---) src/\1 a\/src/"
HBASE-6371.patch | sed -E "s/ src\// b\/src\//" >
HBASE-6371-prefix.patch
reznor-mbp:git-hbase-089 sergey$ git apply HBASE-6371-prefix.patch
HBASE-6371-prefix.patch:169: trailing whitespace.
 ...
error: patch failed:
src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseConfiguration.java:64
error: src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseConfiguration.java:
patch does not apply
....

Hi. Any pointers? Is there some bug tracking system to file a bug to?
Thanks.

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Sergey Shelukhin
[off-list ref] wrote: