On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 4:09 AM, Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Indeed. In my case it dates back to my days hacking on Firefox, which wants 8 lines of context for patches. I'll remove it. - Kyle
