Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Another advantage of this is that it would probably make git less
> likely to fumble a rebase. If there are lots of places in the file
> where we have the same 10 lines in a row with occasional variations,
> rebasing a patch could easily pick the the wrong place to reapply the
> hunk.
That is a really, really good point.
I had been thinking it was a disadvantage of Andrew's proposal that
line breaks would tend to fall in inconsistent places from one entry
to another ... but from this perspective, maybe that's not such a
bad thing.
regards, tom lane
