Re: git-apply{,mbox,patch} should default to --unidiff-zero

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 02:18:46AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Hi,

Hi Johannes,

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:

quoted

git-apply{,mbox,patch} should default to doing --unidiff-zero:

But is that not dangerous? At least now the committer has some safeguard 
against this kind of mistakes. Because you can easily introduce mistakes 
that way.

you are saying "easily".

Did you ever actually run into such a problem?

You must do something like "diff -U0" or manually editing patches for 
creating such patches, and that's very unusual.

And although GNU patch (which has a much bigger userbase than git) 
applies such patches without any warning I don't remember having ever 
seen what you call "easily".

Ciao,
Dscho

cu
Adrian

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