Re: Context diffs

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 8:07 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> * "git apply" and "git am" can't process context diffs (they throw an
> error once a context-like section of the diff is hit; simple
> adding/removing lines in a block works)
>
> * the commit-fest doesn't recognized context diff attachments as
> patches:
>
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/31/2912/
>
> * cfbot can't process file renames/add/delete from context diffs

For the record, cfbot just uses plain old GNU patch, because that
seems to accept nearly everything that anyone posts here (after a step
that tries to unpack tarballs etc). Several people have suggested I
change it to use git apply instead (IIRC it works better for patches
containing binary files such as cryptographic keys?), but then it
wouldn't accept ye olde context diffs.