When a 1-line file is augmented by a second line, and the user tries to stage that single line via the "Stage Line" context menu item, we do not want to see "apply: corrupt patch at line 5". The reason for this error was that the hunk header looks like this: @@ -1 +1,2 @@ but the existing code expects the original range always to contain a comma. This problem is easily fixed by cutting the string "1 +1,2" (that Git GUI formerly mistook for the starting line) at the space. This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/515 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- git-gui/lib/diff.tcl | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/git-gui/lib/diff.tcl b/git-gui/lib/diff.tcl index 4cae10a4c7f..68c4a6c7366 100644 --- a/git-gui/lib/diff.tcl +++ b/git-gui/lib/diff.tcl @@ -698,6 +698,7 @@ proc apply_range_or_line {x y} { set hh [$ui_diff get $i_l "$i_l + 1 lines"] set hh [lindex [split $hh ,] 0] set hln [lindex [split $hh -] 1] + set hln [lindex [split $hln " "] 0] # There is a special situation to take care of. Consider this # hunk: -- 2.15.1.windows.2.395.g5bb0817ee52