On Mon, 14 May 2007 12:25:02 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't think re-generating the diff is wrong, and in fact I think you
> have to do it, but I think Andrew should use "--fuzz=0" or at least
> "--fuzz=1" instead of the default 2. Yeah, it obviously causes more patch
> application failures, and it can be very irritating if *most* of those
> patches would have applied cleanly and correctly with --fuzz=2, but
> --fuzz=2 really is very dangerous. It literally just needed two lines to
> match in the wrong place (and as mentioned, those two lines can be
> trivial, like in the example - totally empty, even!)
Yeah I played with that a while back and --fuzz=0 just broken everything.
--fuzz=1 seems acceptable though. I'll use that from now on.
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