When there are duplicated slashes in pathnames, like this:
--- a/perl//Git.pm
+++ b/perl//Git.pm
@@ -1358,3 +1358,4 @@
1; # Famous last words
+# test
the paths gleaned from the patch header won't be found in the index and
cause "apply --index" and "apply --cached" to fail.
Fix this by squashing the duplicated slashes upon input.
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>