From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:02:29 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Allow git-apply to ignore the hunk headers Message-ID: <4848E105.7050405@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: > @@ -0,0 +0,0 @@ > default: > - return -1; > + return len != 4 && memcmp(line - len, "-- \n", len); > } You're never returning -1 here, right? > However, this will not work if anybody has a signature starting with > "@@ ", "+", " ", "-" or "diff "... I think that the main worry is the patches made with git-format-patch, and those are not problematic. Paolo