Re: [PATCH] config: Introduce --patience config variable

[Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 11:59:42AM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>
>> --- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
>> @@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ diff.mnemonicprefix::
>>  diff.noprefix::
>>  	If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix.
>>  
>> +diff.patience:
>> +    If set, 'git diff' will use patience algorithm.
>> +
>
> Should this be a boolean? Or should we actually have a diff.algorithm
> option where you specify the algorithm you want (e.g., "diff.algorithm =
> patience")? That would free us up later to more easily add new values.
>
> In particular, I am thinking about --minimal. It is mutually exclusive
> with --patience, and is simply ignored if you use patience diff.
> we perhaps have "diff.algorithm" which can be one of "myers", "minimal"
> (which is really myers + the minimal flag), and "patience".

Don't forget "histogram".  I have no idea why it's not documented
(evidently 8c912eea slipped through the review cracks) but --histogram
is supported since 1.7.7.

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Thomas Rast
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