This has come up multiple times before [1], and more generally it's come up hundreds of times with Unix style tools in general. It's always been a stupid idea for every tool to have its own barely documented file format.
This wouldn't be an issue if patches were XML or JSON with a well defined schema, but everything must be a boutique undocumented format in the world of Unix tools.
Maybe the worst part about this is that it can entirely come from a patch being exported by git and then imported straight back in to git. If you can't even handle your own undocumented format then what hope do other tools have that want to work with it?
This wouldn't be an issue if patches were XML or JSON with a well defined schema, but everything must be a boutique undocumented format in the world of Unix tools.
Maybe the worst part about this is that it can entirely come from a patch being exported by git and then imported straight back in to git. If you can't even handle your own undocumented format then what hope do other tools have that want to work with it?
[1]: https://mas.to/@zekjur/116022397626943871