From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:18:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Git Gui does not want to work on chunk level
Message-ID: <7v63pbyxu9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080905045327.GA31166@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> git-gui was incorrectly parsing "--- foo" as the old file name
> in the file header, causing it to generate a bad patch file when
> the user tried to stage or unstage a hunk or the selected line.
> We need to keep track of where we are in the parsing so that we do
> not misread a deletion or addition record as part of the header.

While keeping track of state is obviously a good change, it also might be
worth noticing "@@ -k,l +m,n @@" header and actively using the
information.