From: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 20:52:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] date: remove approxidate_relative()
Message-ID: <b17e05d5-deda-527f-1587-9f1cd7046a0b@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <20230410202536.GE104097@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Am 10.04.23 um 22:25 schrieb Jeff King:
>
> I'm not sure of the least-confusing way to address a single hunk, though
> (by line number is one option, by hunk-number within the patch is
> another). I suspect the best workflow for a user would be to
> interactively say "show me more context for this hunk". Some viewers
> have support for that (e.g., GitHub's web view of a diff). But handling
> that for a one-shot CLI program is tricky, not to mention then feeding
> it back to format-patch to generate the output you want to send. :)

So basically you propose a format-patch --interactive mode that shows
each hunk and allows extending its context.  This could work.  For hunks
that span multiple screens it might be a bit iffy -- or perhaps not, if
the scrollback buffer of the terminal or console is big enough.

René