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Subject: Re: let git-diff allow patch to delete empty files?
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:09:40 +0900
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Quoting "Sam Liddicott" <sam@liddicott.com>:

> In some cases "patch" cannot apply diff's generated using git-diff, I've
> had a "git diff" output look like this when an empty file was removed as
> the only change:

Even if you do not use git to manage your changes, you can use "git apply" from outside of a git repository as a replacement for "patch".

-- 
Nanako Shiraishi
http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/