Re: git-apply{,mbox,patch} should default to --unidiff-zero

> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:41:51PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> >...
> > > Adrian has a point in that if there are lines to be deleted, that in 
> > > itself is context, and then the strict behaviour of "git-apply" is 
> > > arguably unnecessaily strict.
> > 
> > Not really.  That is true, unless you have two identical instances of 
> > the group of lines being deleted, in which case you cannot safely tell 
> > which instance is to be removed.
> >...
> 
> The interesting thing is that you can never safely tell it for any 
> amount of context - I've seen patches with three lines of context being 
> applied at the wrong place simply because there were several matching 
> contexts.