Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-add--interactive: remove hunk coalescing

Thomas Rast [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Blindly concatenating the above two and feeding them to "git apply" *may*
happen to work by accident, not by design.  This very much feels like a
hack of "This works most of the time for me, your mileage may vary" kind,
which we would want to avoid when we can.

Well, I changed my mind.  Let's run with this and see what happens.

In support of this being a feature of git-apply, notice that it even
handles the situation correctly where the context of a hunk has been
influenced by previous hunks, as in...

That's what meant by my earlier "application is hunk-by-hunk in nature"
and we are in agreement.  The fact it works that way is not quite by
design and close to being "by accident", but I do not foresee anybody
changing it in the near future, so...