On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 2:53 AM Adrian Schmutzler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > as most are probably aware, quilt cuts down the position lines in patches > during refresh: > > - @@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ void machine_apply_elf_rel(struct mem_ehdr > *UNUSED(ehdr), > + @@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ void machine_apply_elf_rel(struct mem_eh > > While this has no functional impact, it creates a lot of additional spam > during checkpatch.pl, and it makes these lines less useful for the frequent > cases where the relevant (meaning "specific") information is at the end of > that line (i.e. when looking at patches directly). Apart from that, this > also bloats diffs in packages when people add proper patches, and quilt will > then just cut down these lines without a change in position. > > I wonder whether quilt can be convinced to not cut this line (did not find > any helpful guidance so far), and whether one wants to change that if it's > possible? You found this out on IRC. diff has a 40 line limit.
Different diff utilities can be used with the --diff=utility command line option. > > Best > > Adrian > > > > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
