From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:30:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git gui: show diffs with a minimum of 1 context line
Message-ID: <7vljyeif5g.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vtzd2ifot.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> I suspect there are some things "git-apply" should be able to _figure out_

s/able to/& do to/;

> that the user is giving it a -U0 patch and automatically flip unidiff_zero
> option on.  For example, if the _first_ hunk of a patch does not begin
> with "@@ -0,0 +N,M @@" nor with "@@ -1,L +N,M @@" (i.e. the hunk claims to
> apply not at the beginning) and the hunk does not have leading context
> lines, _and_ if that first hunk does not have trailing context lines, then

Eh, what was I smoking.  In short, if the first hunk does not have _any_
context lines and still says it is intended to apply to somewhere not at
the beginning, then that is a -U0 patch.