Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 4:05 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> ... >> 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. Yup. "completely useless" on the title is less than half correct, but still correct for a minor use case where -C is used to use *more* context lines than the default. We could update "rebase --apply" codepath to increase the context lines generated by format-patch. That would make the "completely useless" totally incorrect ;-)
