Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Kyle, > your patch format is really odd. > > You seem to have *eight* lines of context rather than the regular 3. > Is there any reason for that oddity? > > It basically means that a one-line hunk ends up being 17 lines of > unified diff rather than 7. Presumably he's done: $ git config diff.context 8 Which I also did at one point because I thought it might help for reading diffs, but reverted after realising it also affects the diffs that are generated by format-patch etc. cheers
