Re: git apply vs patch -p1

On 09/14/2013 03:08 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2013-09-14 15:03:52 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> On 09/14/2013 02:37 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> Lately I've been running into a lot of reports of false conflicts
>>> reported by "git apply".  The most recent one was the "points" patch,
>>> which git apply rejected for completely ficticious reasons (it claimed
>>> that the patch was trying to create a new file where a file already
>>> existed, which it wasn't).
>>>
>>> I think we should modify the patch review and developer instructions to
>>> recommend always using patch -p1 (or -p0, depending), even if the patch
>>> was produced with "git diff".
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>
>> FWIW that's what I invariably use.
>>
>> You do have to be careful to git-add/git-rm any added/deleted files, which
>> git-apply does for you (as well as renames) - I've been caught by that a
>> couple of times.
> git reset?
>
>


Yes, of course you can roll back as long as you haven't published your 
commits. But it's a nuisance.

cheers

andrew