Re: Issue with staging, unstaging, discarding hunks with no context

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>]

Hi Daniel

On 18/10/2020 06:48, Daniel Dinnyes wrote:
> The problem I have is described in more detail in the issue here with magit:
> https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/4222
> 
> The conclusion there was that this is an upstream problem due to some
> recent changes in git.

That's not my reading of that issue. Specifically this comment by kyleam

     You're blaming the wrong git :) I introduced this change with
     6b3c90d (magit-apply-patch: Abort when there is no context,
     2019-08-02). It was prompted by gh-3924, which also brought
     about d508f02 (apply: Adjust hunk line positions for partial
     application, 2019-07-28).

Seems to point to this being a change in magit not git.

`git apply --unidiff-zero` will apply zero context patches but as a 
safety measure they will be rejected without `--unidiff-zero`

Best Wishes

Phillip

> As it has been mentioned in the issue itself, it is understood that
> git had problems with handling hunks without context, so I assume this
> upstream change was to eliminate such issues.
> 
> Yet my experience was that hunks without context worked fine before
> 80% of the time, except if they were right next to each other, they
> might get mixed/messed up. Even in that case, I found that if I
> staged/unstaged hunks in top-down order in magit it didn't cause
> problems.
> 
> Without handling no-context hunks, I see I will have to stash/redo
> entire change-sets, to be able to commit logically separate hunks
> separately. This would be a major PITA.
> 
> Is there a plan to reintroduce handling of hunks with 0 line context
> in the future, or is this something which is technically not going to
> be possible ever?
> 
> Cheers,
> Dan
>