Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Ellerman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v15 6/9] x86/arch_prctl: Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID | Date | Thu, 16 Mar 2017 22:09:53 +1100 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> Kyle, > your patch format is really odd. > > You seem to have *eight* lines of context rather than the regular 3. > Is there any reason for that oddity? > > It basically means that a one-line hunk ends up being 17 lines of > unified diff rather than 7.
Presumably he's done:
$ git config diff.context 8
Which I also did at one point because I thought it might help for reading diffs, but reverted after realising it also affects the diffs that are generated by format-patch etc.
cheers
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