From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: tobias@gambas-buch.de (Tobias Boege)
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:01:52 +0100
Subject: Question regarding patches
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On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Shraddha Kamat wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 13:58 +0400, Lijo Antony wrote:
> > On 12/19/2012 12:47 PM, Shraddha Kamat wrote:
> > > Sorry if this is not relevant to kernel. But since I am
> > > patching the kernel - Please consider this as a uber beginner
> > > question to ask on this mailing list - forgive me for that.
> > >
> > > Now my question is -
> > >
> > > What "@@ -321,7 +321,8 @@" mean in this snippet from the patch -
> > >
> > > diff --git a/exec.h b/exec.h
> > > index 722c620..6abb687 100644
> > > --- a/exec.h
> > > +++ b/exec.h
> > > @@ -321,7 +321,8 @@ static void acct_arg_size(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
> > > unsigned long pages);
> > >
> > 
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Detailed-Unified.html
> > http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=164293
> > 
> > -lijo
> > 
> But I don't see any mention of the "index" field here // 
> see line "index 722c620..6abb687 100644". What does this mean ?

See "man git-diff" (GENERATING PATCHES WITH -P) for the information.

Regards,
Tobi