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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc:     Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git format-patch --break-rewrites broken in 2.9.3
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Date:   Thu, 18 Aug 2016 13:42:04 -0700
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 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/