From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:52:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git gui: use apply --unidiff-zero when staging hunks without context
Message-ID: <7vprnqfcoo.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080830202706.GA13573@localhost>

Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> writes:

> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 09:43:19PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> Clemens Buchacher schrieb:
>>> git apply does not work correctly with zero-context patches. It does a
>>> little better with --unidiff-zero.
>>
>> No, NO, NOOOOO! This kills your data!
>
> Okay. Since we have 'Stage Line for Commit', supporting this would be almost
> pointless anyways. So let's forget about trying to fix this and simply
> disable zero-context diff in git-gui, as per my original patch
>
> [PATCH] git gui: show diffs with a minimum of 1 context line

Well, showing is Ok as long as you do not try pick and apply.  Or did I
miss something?