Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Allow git-apply to ignore the hunk headers

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Sergei Organov wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > You read a hunk header line "@@ -l,m +n,o @@", and start counting the 
> > diff text because you do not trust m and o.  When you read the last 
> > hunk in a patch e-mail, you may hit a e-mail signature separator, like 
> > what is given by format-patch output at the end.  Mistaking that as an 
> > extra preimage context to remove "^- $" is what I was worried about.
> 
> Don't you think it's time to fix git-format-patch to put some reliable 
> "end-of-patch" marker line before the signature? This change (along with 
> refusal to generate brain-damaged empty lines inside hunks) will make 
> git diffs easily parseable without information from hunk headers.

Actually, what do you think the numbers in the hunk headers are good for?  
They _are_ reliable end-of-hunk markers.  And if the next line does not 
exist, or does not start, it is end-of-diff.  Reliable. Simple.

Only when you need to get sloppy, things get worse.  I need to get sloppy.

But that's hardly the fault of format-patch.

Ciao,
Dscho