Re: [PATCH] Revert "git gui: show diffs with a minimum of 1 context line"

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Clemens Buchacher, 24.05.2009:
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:28:47PM +0200, Markus Heidelberg wrote:
> > Diffs without context can actually be useful. Depending on the changes
> > it can be less distracting to read them or to get an overview.
> 
> Maybe so. But as stated in the commit message of 55ba8a3 (git gui: show
> diffs with a minimum of 1 context line) context-less diff was disabled
> because it caused bugs with staging.

It wasn't clear to me that there were bugs. I thought it just "does not
work" in some way, but should have tried it at least. Now I see.

> However, I never got around to fix the
> real cause of the problem. See the original thread at
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94387

Thanks for the link. After reading this discussion I also see that
disabling staging with zero context is not a user-friendly solution.

Markus

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