From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Tom Ritter <tom@ritter.vg>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Can I convince the diff algorithm to behave better?
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 10:52:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD1gFA2DyyjyfJ7pKNRyqO2=Y2BOyF0Aeni3GXvgeL8Wtg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+cU71=FfReSG411Feo=vmkw4MdK4KDgokP1jH6uwOkC_0AbYA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 8:37 AM Tom Ritter <tom@ritter.vg> wrote:
[...]
> Obviously there's nothing incorrect about the former diff, I just wish
> it was the latter rather than the former.
>
> I know that git includes four diff algorithms; in my testing patience
> or histogram exacerbated the problem; and none of them improved upon
> it. If anyone has suggestions I'd be curious to know if there's
> anything that could be done...
It's not so easy to implement good diff algorithms. You might want to
take a look at the "v2.11 new diff heuristic?" article in:
https://git.github.io/rev_news/2016/12/14/edition-22/
Best,
Christian.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-04 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-03 2:03 Can I convince the diff algorithm to behave better? Tom Ritter
2021-03-03 12:41 ` Thomas Braun
2021-03-03 23:45 ` Jonathan Tan
2021-03-04 9:52 ` Christian Couder [this message]
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