Re: Bug report: "Invoking 'patch' failed."

[Bernhard <nemec gmx net>]

Aaron Schrab <aaron <at> schrab.com> writes:

> 
> At 17:43 +0100 04 Nov 2011, Bernhard Nemec <nemec <at> gmx.net> wrote:
> >- meld version: '1.5.0'
> >- source control software type: 'Git'
> >- source control software version: '1.7.4.1'
> >- the output of 'git diff --relative HEAD somefile.txt'
> >- patch command: 'patch -p1 -R -d /tmp/tmpt70Ez3-meld'
> >
> >(GNU patch is installed)
> 
> Do you have git's diff.mnemonicprefix set to a true value?  If so, this 
> is likely the same problem as in 
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663050
> 
> A patch to fix the problem is attached to that bug report.  If that 
> isn't the problem, it may help to send the output of 

As I wrote in the other thread, I can't currently run the git version, so I 
didn't try that patch. But

> git diff --relative HEAD somefile.txt | head -n 5

$ git diff --relative HEAD Makefile | head -n 5
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2dd6e7a..a93c6fe 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@