Re: [RFC/PATCH] add-patch: handle splitting hunks with diff.suppressBlankEmpty

>> I think your patch looks good. I did wonder if we wanted to fix this
>> by normalizing context lines instead as shown in the diff below. That
>> might make it less likely to miss adding "|| '\n'" in future code that
>> is looking for a context line but I don't have a strong preference
>> either way.
> 
> Yeah, I had a similar thought, but it got messy because we have to deal
> with the source buffer. But the extra "char ch" you added in the patch
> below fixes that. I think the result is better.
> 
> Looking at the blank-line handling in recount_edited_hunk(), we also
> handle a CRLF empty line there. Should we do so here, too? If so, then
> it would just be a matter of touching normalize_marker() in your patch.
> 
> Do you want to just re-send your patch with a commit message to replace
> mine? (Feel free to steal the non-wrong parts of my message ;) ).

>> ---- >8 ----
>> diff --git a/add-patch.c b/add-patch.c
>> index d8ea05ff108..795aa772b7a 100644
>> --- a/add-patch.c
>> +++ b/add-patch.c
>> @@ -400,6 +400,12 @@ static void complete_file(char marker, struct hunk *hunk)
>>   		hunk->splittable_into++;
>>   }
>> +/* Empty context lines may omit the leading ' ' */
>> +static int normalize_marker(char marker)
>> +{
>> +	return marker == '\n' ? ' ' : marker;
>> +}
>> +
>>   static int parse_diff(struct add_p_state *s, const struct pathspec *ps)
> 
> Minor nit: missing blank line between functions.
> 
> -Peff