Re: [BUG] git-am silently applying patches incorrectly

From: Colin Guthrie <gmane@colin.guthr.ie>
Date: Mar 4, 2011, 22:20 UTC
Message-ID: <4D7165A3.5080308@colin.guthr.ie>
In-Reply-To: <7vtyfi606a.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

'Twas brillig, and Junio C Hamano at 04/03/11 21:33 did gyre and gimble:

> In short, Linus and I both know what you are talking about, and we may
> revisit that issue later, but the thing is that it would not be very
> pleasant, and not something that can be done in one sitting during a
> single discussion thread on the list.

As a simple option to avoid that, how about just printing out (by default) the line offsets if hunks don't apply 100% cleanly? This would at least alert you to the fact that some fixups were needed.

Just a thought...

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