Question regarding patches

[Shraddha Kamat]

On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 13:58 +0400, Lijo Antony wrote:
> On 12/19/2012 12:47 PM, Shraddha Kamat wrote:
> > Sorry if this is not relevant to kernel. But since I am
> > patching the kernel - Please consider this as a uber beginner
> > question to ask on this mailing list - forgive me for that.
> >
> > Now my question is -
> >
> > What "@@ -321,7 +321,8 @@" mean in this snippet from the patch -
> >
> > diff --git a/exec.h b/exec.h
> > index 722c620..6abb687 100644
> > --- a/exec.h
> > +++ b/exec.h
> > @@ -321,7 +321,8 @@ static void acct_arg_size(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
> > unsigned long pages);
> >
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Detailed-Unified.html
> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=164293
> 
> -lijo
> 
But I don't see any mention of the "index" field here // 
see line "index 722c620..6abb687 100644". What does this mean ?

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-- Shraddha