From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:37:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Allow git-apply to ignore the hunk headers (AKA recountdiff)
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