On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 4:05 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > From: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The `-C` option to rebase was introduced with 67dad687ad ("add -C[NUM]
> > to git-am", 2007-02-08).
> > ...
> > As per the git-apply documentation for the `-C` option:
> > Ensure at least <n> lines of surrounding context match...When fewer
> > lines of surrounding context exist they all must match.
> >
> > The fact that format-patch was not passed a -U option to increase the
> > number of context lines meant that there would still only be 3 lines of
> > context to match on.
>
> I am afraid that this is only less than half true. Isn't the
> intended use of -C<num> similar to how "patch --fuzz" is used?
>
> That is, even when a patch does not cleanly apply with full context
> in the incoming diff, by requiring *smaller* number of lines to
> match, the diff *could* be forced to apply with reduced precision?
Oh! Reducing the number of lines of context to pay attention to never
even occurred to me for whatever reason. I'll drop the patch.
