Unix patching for removed files does not work.

[peterfronc]

Git typical patch when file is removed returns "/dev/null" as a new file and hunk size is set to [0,0].

Currently library adds the file path on top of base directory (/abc/dev/null).

Its quite an issue to use zutubi patch with diffs. Also patch does not recognize that diff as remove type.

Is it git specific? Any example showing to patch directory with diff --git ?

[peterfronc]

Any example how to use it with git patches?

"Application of git patches is not yet supported (apply them using GitClient)" ?

[jsankey]

Hi Peter,

The git patch parser uses the git-specific headers to determine that the path is deleting a file (git adds a header line starting with "deleted file"). To ensure this is being used you must use a GitPatchParser. If you are using GitPatchParser but delete is still not recognised as such please include an example diff.

Also, at the moment this library does not support applying git diffs, just because the software I'm using it for doesn't require it (there is already a dependency on the git command line, so I just call out to that). Applying textual git diffs should be easy enough as it is similar to applying a unified diff and could likely share that code. I haven't looked into applying binary diffs, although I suspect that's not too hard either.