When --no-prefix is used, we should probably do:
Index: <filename>
instead of
diff --git <filename> <filename>
If nothing else, --no-prefix generates patches that git-apply can't apply
but thinks that it should be able to because of the "diff --git" line.
Can't tell if this matters, or if this is meant to underline the Index
line, and if we can leave some extra info after it. The source link you
sent requires a login; is this line actually important to recognition, or
is it just different in the generated patches?
This (putting a description of the revision at the end) would be nice in
general for those of us who can't remember what arguments we gave to git
diff and can't get back to them without quitting less and no longer having
the diff.
Of course, it would take a lot of magic to get git to describe things with
the svn revision info in a non-svn-specific command, but that may not be
necessary if tortoise is willing to apply patches where the base revision
is unknown. Or git-svn could just make a lot of tags like "revision 4715".
-Daniel
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