From: Tatyana Krasnukha <taty...@synopsys.com>

Subversion generates diffs that can contain lines like this one:

        --- /dev/null  (nonexistent)

Let's teach Git's apply machinery to handle such a line gracefully.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/isues/1489

Signed-off-by: Tatyana Krasnukha <taty...@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de>
---
 apply.c                          | 2 +-
 t/t4135-apply-weird-filenames.sh | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apply.c b/apply.c
index f8b67bfee2c..107aa4c216e 100644
--- a/apply.c
+++ b/apply.c
@@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ static int gitdiff_verify_name(struct apply_state *state,
                }
                free(another);
        } else {
-               if (!starts_with(line, "/dev/null\n"))
+               if (!is_dev_null(line))
                        return error(_("git apply: bad git-diff - expected 
/dev/null on line %d"), state->linenr);
        }
 
diff --git a/t/t4135-apply-weird-filenames.sh b/t/t4135-apply-weird-filenames.sh
index b14b8085786..c7c688fcc4b 100755
--- a/t/t4135-apply-weird-filenames.sh
+++ b/t/t4135-apply-weird-filenames.sh
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ deleted file mode 100644
 -
 EOF
 
-test_expect_failure 'apply handles a diff generated by Subversion' '
+test_expect_success 'apply handles a diff generated by Subversion' '
        >Makefile &&
        git apply -p2 diff-from-svn &&
        test_path_is_missing Makefile
-- 
2.16.1.windows.1

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