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

On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 19:40:12 +0200, Junio C Hamano wrote:

But I think Jan is talking about the case where users get a patch
that lacks the "index" information out of other people's "diff"
implementation and try to "apply -3" without realizing that it is
not Git's "diff" output.

Yes.

Perhaps something like the attached patch would be a good start.

It does fix the problem for me, thanks!


Jan