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diff-apply-hunk interacts poorly with line endings

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Message #23 received at 18236 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>, 18236 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18236: diff-apply-hunk interacts poorly with line endings
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:32:03 +0000

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On 20 February 2016 at 12:16, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

>
> The most we can do is display a warning and ask for confirmation when
> the values of buffer-file-coding-system differ between the patch
> file's buffer and the buffer of file to be patched.  Will that be
> sufficient?
>

Thanks for your analysis. ​This solution sounds fine to me: ​as you say, in
general it's impossible to tell exactly what went wrong, but we can warn
the user so that the unfortunate result I described is not obtained
silently.

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http://rrt.sc3d.org

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