Re: [PATCH] date: remove approxidate_relative()

> > Ooh, I like that very much. In that sense it really feels like an
> > extension of --function-context. Would the regexes be searches starting
> > from the edge of some context (as they more or less are under the hood
> > for function context), or would you search within the whole file for
> > ranges (and then presumably use them when a hunk's context is adjacent
> > to or overlaps a range)?
> >
> > If the latter, I guess you could also allow both absolute and relative
> > line numbers, similar to how "-L" accepts range input.
> 
> We want the latter.
> 
> If we further imagine that approxidate_careful() were defined very
> far away (in either direction) from approxidate_relative() that
> "extending" the patch context to show the removal of the latter to
> cover the former would show too much irrelevant information, I think
> René would have wanted to show a normal patch plus an extra hunk
> that contains the entirety of approxidate_careful() that shows no
> modification (i.e. all lines are prefixed with an SP).  The way I
> think about this new "feature" is "compute what hunks should be
> shown, honoring all other options.  Then pretend no-op hunks to
> cover all specified lines in the postimage [*] are also in the
> result.  Combine them all, ignoring parts of the made-up no-op hunks
> when they contradict the real hunks.".  The end result should show
> all specified lines from the postimage plus the usual diff.