On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:41:51PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>...
> > Adrian has a point in that if there are lines to be deleted, that in
> > itself is context, and then the strict behaviour of "git-apply" is
> > arguably unnecessaily strict.
>
> Not really. That is true, unless you have two identical
> instances of the group of lines being deleted, in which case you
> cannot safely tell which instance is to be removed.
>...
The interesting thing is that you can never safely tell it for any
amount of context - I've seen patches with three lines of context being
applied at the wrong place simply because there were several matching
contexts.
cu
Adrian
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