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Re: Getting clean diff data from git-mailinfo

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Feb 22, 2020, 18:00 UTC
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On Feb 22 2020, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> *1* Even when people edit without changing the line numbers (imagine
>     a typofix on a '+' line), I saw that "patch" mode of Emacs broke
>     the line count on "@@ ...@@" line of the last hunk when the
>     patch ends with certain patterns.

For example, when followed by the "-- " signature of git format-patch, as that makes the output ambiguous.

Andreas.
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