Jörn, 2015-07-18 21:04 GMT+02:00 Jörn Engel <jo...@purestorage.com>: > Not sure how to interpret your answer. Given that git or a human can > apply the patch just fine, I would consider it a legal patch.
Yes, kind of. It's not a patch that a tool would produce though. > As such, I would be unhappy about an answer that implied "there > is no bug". An answer of "this is hard, send a patch if you care" > would be fine. I had a brief look at the code and decided to work > on something else instead. I have tried removing this heuristic in the past. The result was lots of misapplied patches. I couldn't think of a better heuristic either. Changing these kinds of things is difficult: for example, distributions are using patch for applying hundreds of thousands of patches automatically during package builds. These kinds of mis-applied patches are relatively likely not to not lead to subsequent errors (like syntax errors in a C file). Andreas
