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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Cc:     git@vger.kernel.org, sbeller@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xdiff/xpatience: support anchoring line(s)
References: <20171121221717.155301-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>
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Date:   Thu, 23 Nov 2017 11:05:01 +0900
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Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> writes:

> One thing that might help is to warn if --anchor is used without
> --patience, but I couldn't find a good place to put that warning. Let me
> know if you know of a good place.

How about dropping --anchor option and do it as "--patience=<pattern>"?