Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Allow git-apply to ignore the hunk headers (AKA recountdiff)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 6, 2008, 16:37 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806061735550.1783@racer>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6bav8ww.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Deleting the common context lines from the beginning, or adding a new
> "+added line" at the very beginning of a hunk, is a user error for
> somebody who edits the diff.

Unfortunately, that was exactly what I needed to do. Not in a theoretical sense, but a very practical one.

Only in hindsight do I realize that I could have increased the context, but that was not easily possible with the way I drive diff-files via run_command().

Oh well, another iteration.

Ciao, Dscho

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