Eric, On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 17:16 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > It would have saved me a lot of time if both 'patch' and 'git apply' > could be taught a mode of operation where they explicitly reject a patch > that cannot be applied without relying on an offset.
that sounds reasonable. Can you send a patch or at least add a bug on Savannah? > It might also be nice if patch could learn the algorithm that appears to > match the git behavior, where when there are multiple points with > identical context (viewing just the context in isolation), but where > those locations differ in function location (as learned by the @@ header > line in the patch file), then the preferred offset is the one in the > named function, even if that is not the closes context match to the line > number given in the patch file. Sounds interesting; a patch for that would be great as well. Thanks, Andreas
