apply: use the right attribute for paths in non-Git patches

We parse each patchfile and find the name of the path the patch
applies to, and then use that name to consult the attribute system
to find the whitespace rules to be used, and also the target file
(either in the working tree or in the index) to replay the changes
against.

Unlike a Git-generated patch, a non-Git patch is taken to have the
pathnames relative to the current working directory.  The names
found in such a patch are modified by prepending the prefix by the
prefix_patches() helper function introduced in 56185f49 (git-apply:
require -p<n> when working in a subdirectory., 2007-02-19).

However, this prefixing is done after the patch is fully parsed and
affects only what target files are patched.  Because the attributes
are checked against the names found in the patch during the parsing,
not against the final pathname, the whitespace check that is done
during parsing ends up using attributes for a wrong path for non-Git
patches.

Fix this by doing the prefix much earlier, immediately after the
header part of each patch is parsed and we learn the name of the
path the patch affects.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t4119-apply-config.sh b/t/t4119-apply-config.sh
index 3d0384daa8..be325fa1ae 100755
--- a/t/t4119-apply-config.sh
+++ b/t/t4119-apply-config.sh
@@ -159,4 +159,21 @@ test_expect_success 'same but with traditional patch input of depth 2' '
 	check_result sub/file1
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'in subdir with traditional patch input' '
+	cd "$D" &&
+	git config apply.whitespace strip &&
+	cat >.gitattributes <<-EOF &&
+	/* whitespace=blank-at-eol
+	sub/* whitespace=-blank-at-eol
+	EOF
+	rm -f sub/file1 &&
+	cp saved sub/file1 &&
+	git update-index --refresh &&
+
+	cd sub &&
+	git apply ../gpatch.file &&
+	echo "B " >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect file1
+'
+
 test_done