Re: [PATCH] apply: tell user location of corrupted patch file

>> An alternate design was considered which involved printing the line
>> numbers relative to the output of `git am --show-current-patch` (in
>> other words, the actual mail file that's provided to am). This design
>> was not chosen because am does not store the whole mail and instead,
>> splits the mail into several files. As a result of this, this would
>> break existing users' workflow if they piped their mail directly to am
>> from their mail client, the whole mail would not exist in any file and
>> they would have to manually recreate the mail to see the line number.
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> More importantly,...