I wrote a custom `applyPatch` function that tries to use the line numbers, but falls back to searching for the context lines to line up the +/- patched lines.
It actually got line number not too wrong, and so they might have been helpful. (I included the line numbers for the original file in context).
Ultimately though, this approach was still error prone enough that we recently switched away.
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I wrote a custom `applyPatch` function that tries to use the line numbers, but falls back to searching for the context lines to line up the +/- patched lines.
It actually got line number not too wrong, and so they might have been helpful. (I included the line numbers for the original file in context).
Ultimately though, this approach was still error prone enough that we recently switched away.