Re: git format-patch --break-rewrites broken in 2.9.3

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

I think that is one half of the story.

The other half is a long/well known bug that lets "diff -B -M" to
produce incorrect/broken patch that cannot be applied.  It was
documented in the thread that begins at:

    public-inbox.org/git/xmqqfvapuhkk.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com

but still hasn't been solved.

The problem report actually starts here:

    public-inbox.org/git/xmqqegqaahnh.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com/