patch: better handling of sequence of offset patch hunks (issue1941)
The built-in patch implementation applied the hunks to the wrong lines of the
file if the file in the repo has been modified to skew the patch line numbers
and the file contains repetitive sequences of lines.
adding a
% default context
diff -r cf9f4ba66af2 a
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
c
a
a
-b
+dd
a
a
c
% invalid --unified
abort: diff context lines count must be an integer, not 'foo'
% --unified=2
diff -r cf9f4ba66af2 a
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
a
a
-b
+dd
a
a
% diff.unified=2
diff -r cf9f4ba66af2 a
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
a
a
-b
+dd
a
a
% diff.unified=2 --unified=1
diff -r cf9f4ba66af2 a
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -4,3 +4,3 @@
a
-b
+dd
a
% invalid diff.unified
abort: diff context lines count must be an integer, not 'foo'
% test off-by-one error with diff -p
adding a
diff -r cb9a9f314b8b a
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -1,0 +1,1 @@
+b
@@ -2,0 +3,1 @@ a
+c