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

Sergei Organov [off-list ref] writes:

Don't you think it's time to fix git-format-patch to put some reliable
"end-of-patch" marker line before the signature?

Not at all.  git-apply is designed to (and has to) grok any reasonable
e-mailed patch, not just format-patch output.  And we should consider
having e-mail signature separator at the end as "reasonable".

It only becomes an issue when you start deviating from the rule of
reliable diff parsing, such as ignoring the old/new line count, which is
the topic of Dscho's patch.