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

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 04:44:21PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:

This command used to create a diff which can be consumed by patch. But
at least with 2.9.3 it just gives a rename output:

 git format-patch \
        --no-signature \
        --stdout \
        --break-rewrites \
        --keep-subject \
 95fa0405c5991726e06c08ffcd8ff872f7fb4f2d^..95fa0405c5991726e06c08ffcd8ff872f7fb4f2d


What must be done now to get a usable patch?

Probably --no-renames.

Renames were enabled by default by 5404c11 (diff: activate diff.renames
by default, 2016-02-25), which is in v2.9.0.

I wonder if we should consider undoing that for format-patch, whose
output may be consumed by non-git endpoints.

-Peff