Re: misleading diff-hunk header

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

Am 21.08.2012 17:42, schrieb Tim Chase:

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On 08/21/12 10:22, Thomas Rast wrote:

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misleadingly suggesting that the change occurred in the call_me()
function, rather than in main()

I think that's intentional, and matches what 'diff -p' does...

Okay...I tested "diff -p" and can't argue (much) with historical
adherence.  It just makes it hard for me to gather some stats on the
functions that changed, and requires that I look in more than one
place (both in the header, and in the leading context) rather than
having a single authoritative place to grep.

If it's only for stats, why not just remove the context with -U0?

I actually think you want a way to say -U<sufficiently-large> in
this case instead of unsightly -U99999.