Re: bugreport: git apply -3 confusing "lacks the necessary blob"

On 19/08/21 01.17, Jan Kratochvil wrote:

reproducer:
(set -ex;: rm -rf gitgit;mkdir gitgit;cd gitgit;git init;echo a >x;git add x;git commit -am.;git checkout -b b;echo b >x;git commit -am.;git checkout master;echo c >x;git commit -am.;git diff master^..b|grep -v ^index >b.diff;git apply -3 b.diff || cat b.diff)

I can reproduce your issue on latest Git (2.33.0).

It seems like you remove `index` line, which **may** contain blob hash information required for three-way merge with git apply -3.

But if you don't remove it when generating patch that way, you will get expected conflict when git applying.

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