Colin Guthrie <gmane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 'Twas brillig, and Junio C Hamano at 04/03/11 21:33 did gyre and gimble: >> In short, Linus and I both know what you are talking about, and we may >> revisit that issue later, but the thing is that it would not be very >> pleasant, and not something that can be done in one sitting during a >> single discussion thread on the list. > > As a simple option to avoid that, how about just printing out (by > default) the line offsets if hunks don't apply 100% cleanly? This would > at least alert you to the fact that some fixups were needed. > > Just a thought... ... and a patch to do so would look like this. "git apply -v" and (GNU) "patch -p1" seems to report exactly the same numbers for the problematic patch and the initial state that started this discussion. builtin/apply.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/apply.c b/builtin/apply.c index 14951da..4d22d16 100644 --- a/builtin/apply.c +++ b/builtin/apply.c @@ -2638,6 +2643,14 @@ static int apply_one_fragment(struct image *img, struct fragment *frag, apply = 0; } + if (apply_verbosely && applied_pos != pos) { + int offset = applied_pos - pos; + if (offset < 0) + offset = 0 - offset; + fprintf(stderr, "Applied at %d (offset %d line(s)).\n", + applied_pos + 1, offset); + } + /* * Warn if it was necessary to reduce the number * of context lines. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html