In the context of git (and diff), what is a "hunk"

Question

I was looking for a definition of "hunk" while reading some git documentation.

I know it means a description of the difference between two files and that it has a well defined format, but I couldn't call to mind a succinct definition.

I tried searching with google, but there were a lot of somewhat spurious hits.

Answer 1

And eventually I found this:

When comparing two files, diff finds sequences of lines common to both files, interspersed with groups of differing lines called hunks.

here: http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Hunks.html

Which was exactly the kind of succinct definition I was looking for. Hopefully this helps someone else out!