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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git gui: use apply --unidiff-zero when staging hunks without context
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:40:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080901194004.GH7482@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080830210007.GA15004@localhost>

Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 01:52:23PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Well, showing is Ok as long as you do not try pick and apply.  Or did I
> > miss something?
> 
> If I understand correctly git gui bases its patches on what it shows in the
> diff window - which makes sense, because otherwise it would be a PITA to
> find out which hunk the user actually wanted.
> 
> We could allow diffs without context and disable staging in that case, but I
> suspect this would only confuse the user.

I agree.  Lets just disallow zero-context diffs.  Its far easier
for the user to understand the diff limit is 1.

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-01 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-30 16:45 [PATCH] git gui: show diffs with a minimum of 1 context line Clemens Buchacher
2008-08-30 16:56 ` [PATCH] git gui: use apply --unidiff-zero when staging hunks without context Clemens Buchacher
2008-08-30 17:53   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-30 19:03     ` [PATCH] git apply: do not match beginning in special unidiff-zero case Clemens Buchacher
2008-08-30 19:54       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-30 19:40     ` [PATCH] git-apply: Loosen "match_beginning" logic Junio C Hamano
2008-08-30 19:43   ` [PATCH] git gui: use apply --unidiff-zero when staging hunks without context Johannes Sixt
2008-08-30 20:27     ` Clemens Buchacher
2008-08-30 20:52       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-30 21:00         ` Clemens Buchacher
2008-09-01 19:40           ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2008-08-30 17:19 ` [PATCH] git gui: show diffs with a minimum of 1 context line Junio C Hamano
2008-08-30 17:30   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-30 20:46 ` Clemens Buchacher
2008-09-01 19:33 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-01 19:41   ` Clemens Buchacher
2008-09-01 19:47     ` Shawn O. Pearce

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