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From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "git gui: show diffs with a minimum of 1
	context line"
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 01:16:06 +0200
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On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:28:47PM +0200, Markus Heidelberg wrote:
> Diffs without context can actually be useful. Depending on the changes
> it can be less distracting to read them or to get an overview.

Maybe so. But as stated in the commit message of 55ba8a3 (git gui: show
diffs with a minimum of 1 context line) context-less diff was disabled
because it caused bugs with staging. However, I never got around to fix the
real cause of the problem. See the original thread at

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94387