From: Miles Bader Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:53:44 GMT Subject: Re: git diff woes Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4738E9E6.2040001@op5.se> Andreas Ericsson writes: > I notice it, and I don't like it. I guess I'm just used to git being > smarter than their GNU tool equivalents, especially since it only ever > applies patches in full. It's not at all obvious that this behavior is actually wrong -- it seems perfectly reasonable to use either old or new text for the hunk headers. It hardly matters really, since that particular output is just "useful noise" to provide a bit of helpful context for human readers, and humans (unlike programs) are notoriously good at not being bothered by such things. Er, well most humans anyway. -Miles -- Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there is something wrong with him. -- Art Buchwald