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From: "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Why doesn't git-apply remove empty file
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:42:22 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> and no, git never did that file date thing, so git acts differently from
> GNU patch in this thing (as in so many others, for that matter).
>

Well patch(1) is so used out there that makes git-apply often do the
wrong thing for such corner cases when applying a patch made by
patch(1).

Maybe git-apply would be more friendly regarding patch(1) if it has an
option to emulate GNU patch for some situations. Or if this means
adding too many quirks in git-apply code, maybe give the possibity for
git-am to use patch(1) instead of git-apply.

-- 
Francis