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

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-08-19 01:08:52 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7693754
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7693754/t.md

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Junio C Hamano [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/

```