Re: Git Gui does not want to work on chunk level

["Alexander Gladysh" <agladysh@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I like 'stage hunk for commit' feature in Git Gui, but often it gives
>> > me an error message box:
>> >
>> > fatal: git-apply: bad git-diff - inconsistent old filename on line 4
> ...
> I've never seen that before, but its clearly dumping a bad diff
> into git-apply.
>
> Open up lib/diff.tcl and find "proc apply_hunk".  Inside of the
> catch maybe insert a puts to see the diff, e.g.:
> <...>
> Then if you can scrub the context and +/- lines for a bad diff and
> send us at least the headers, or tell us how they are malformed,
> it would help to debug it.

Thank you!

Header looks well-formed to me:

diff --git a/path/file.ext b/path/file.ext
--- a/path/file.ext
+++ b/path/file.ext

I have sent you full output privately. I do not see anything unusual
in it... Anyplace where I may put more logging?

Thanks again,
Alexander.