From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:31:01 GMT Subject: Re: add -e, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2009, #02; Sun, 12) Message-ID: <7v7i1m3m1m.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin writes: > Actually, I am beginning to hate the idea of having this in add -e, but > would prefer it to be in apply ("git apply $PATCH" could -- and should -- > complain when not being called with --unidiff-zero and encountering a > patch that should (but does not) have common context lines). I think it already complains by rejecting. The thing is, only "add -e" knows that the patch being fed to apply is potentially manually corrupt by the end user.