bug#18236: diff-apply-hunk interacts poorly with line endings

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2016-02-20, at 13:50, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:32:03 +0000
>> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
>> Cc: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>, 18236@debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>>  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.
>
> Marcin, would you like to work on a change along these lines?

OK, I'll take a look and report in a few days.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University