Re: misleading diff-hunk header

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 21, 2012, 22:29 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwr0rc217.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <5033C7D5.1030404@kdbg.org>

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

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> Am 21.08.2012 17:42, schrieb Tim Chase:
>> On 08/21/12 10:22, Thomas Rast wrote:
>>>> misleadingly suggesting that the change occurred in the call_me()
>>>> function, rather than in main()
>>>
>>> I think that's intentional, and matches what 'diff -p' does...
>> 
>> Okay...I tested "diff -p" and can't argue (much) with historical
>> adherence.  It just makes it hard for me to gather some stats on the
>> functions that changed, and requires that I look in more than one
>> place (both in the header, and in the leading context) rather than
>> having a single authoritative place to grep.
>
> If it's only for stats, why not just remove the context with -U0?

I actually think you want a way to say -U<sufficiently-large> in this case instead of unsightly -U99999.