Re: [PATCH 2/4] t3701: add failing test for pathological context lines

Phillip Wood [off-list ref] writes:

From: Phillip Wood <redacted>

When a hunk is skipped by add -i the offsets of subsequent hunks are
not adjusted to account for any missing insertions due to the skipped
hunk. Most of the time this does not matter as apply uses the context
lines to apply the subsequent hunks in the correct place, however in
pathological cases the context lines will match at the now incorrect
offset and the hunk will be applied in the wrong place. The offsets of

Good.  The --recount "feature" on the receiving end does not have
enough information to do a job as good as the code sitting at the
side of producing a patch to be applied, and this goes in the right
direction.