From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:31:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git-am silently applying patches incorrectly
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In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim=jpJmBZmtAVX2V8Ui44AwpTbevJtSR2Xk=wLX@mail.gmail.com>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> IOW, maybe something like "img->last_match = applied_pos +
> postimage.nr;" or whatever.
>
> I dunno.

I was lazy and didn't want to worry about the consequences of excluding
the end of the context lines in the previous hunk, especially when the
patch was generated with small number of context lines.

But it would probably be a good idea to cut the search at the tail end of
the previous hunk.