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mdiff/patch: fix bad hunk handling for unified diffs with zero context

Prior to this patch "hg diff -U0", i.e., zero lines of context, would
output hunk headers with a start line one greater than what GNU patch
and git output. Guido van Rossum documents the unified diff format[1]
as having a start line value "one lower than one would expect" for
zero length hunks.

Comparing the behaviour of the three systems prior to this patch in
transforming

  c1
  c3

to

  c1
  c2
  c3

- GNU "diff -U0" reports the hunk as "@@ -1,0 +2 @@"
- "git diff -U0" reports the hunk as "@@ -1,0 +2 @@"
- "hg diff -U0" reports the hunk as "@@ -2,0 +2,1 @@"

After this patch, "hg diff -U0" reports "@@ -1,0 +2,1 @@".

Since "hg export --config diff.unified=0" outputs zero-context unified
diffs, "hg import" has also been updated to account for start lines
one less than expected for zero length hunk ranges.

[1]: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=164293

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