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From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>,
	Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>,
	Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Moved code detection: ignore space on uniform indentation
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 12:55:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xpiTL4jpjFjxu-wStiGado60P2jkBs0XrhkRXfzVp6UqQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZ-k7Ho-_Cg3OLLypfjoEn8pTDN7dWpX0=8o+o2BvUcqA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 12:00 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
>>>> The fun is in the last patch, which allows white space sensitive
>>>> languages to trust the move detection, too. Each block that is marked as
>>>> moved will have the same delta in {in-, de-}dentation.
>>>> I would think this mode might be a reasonable default eventually.
>>>
>>> This sounds like a good idea. "Trust" is probably too strong a word, but
>>> I can see this being useful even in non-whitespace-sensitive languages
>>> with nested blocks (like C).
>>
>> The ability to detect moved code despite whitespace changes would be
>> good, even while showing diffs with the whitespace intact.
>
> That is what the last patch is about.

Right. I was trying to say "I agree with the goal, even if we don't
necessarily allow every possible white-space + color-moved lines
combination" (i.e. to avoid polluting the option space too much)

Thanks,
Jake

      reply	other threads:[~2018-04-03 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-02 22:48 [RFC PATCH 0/7] Moved code detection: ignore space on uniform indentation Stefan Beller
2018-04-02 22:48 ` [PATCH 1/7] xdiff/xdiff.h: remove unused flags Stefan Beller
2018-04-02 22:48 ` [PATCH 2/7] xdiff/xdiffi.c: remove unneeded function declarations Stefan Beller
2018-04-02 22:48 ` [PATCH 3/7] diff.c: do not pass diff options as keydata to hashmap Stefan Beller
2018-04-06 20:04   ` Jeff King
2018-04-06 20:41     ` Stefan Beller
2018-04-02 22:48 ` [PATCH 4/7] diff.c: adjust hash function signature to match hashmap expectation Stefan Beller
2018-04-02 22:48 ` [PATCH 5/7] diff.c: refactor internal representation for coloring moved code Stefan Beller
2018-04-02 23:51   ` Jonathan Tan
2018-04-03 18:59     ` Stefan Beller
2018-04-06 21:28     ` Stefan Beller
2018-04-06 22:27       ` Jonathan Tan
2018-04-03 19:39   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-04-03 19:49     ` Stefan Beller
2018-04-03 20:44       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-04-03 21:05         ` [PATCH] diff: add a blocks mode for moved code detection Stefan Beller
2018-04-02 22:48 ` [PATCH 6/7] diff.c: decouple white space treatment for move detection from generic option Stefan Beller
2018-04-03  0:31   ` Jonathan Tan
2018-04-02 22:48 ` [PATCH 7/7] diff.c: add --color-moved-ignore-space-delta option Stefan Beller
2018-04-03  0:41   ` Jonathan Tan
2018-04-03 19:22     ` Stefan Beller
2018-04-03 20:38       ` Jonathan Tan
2018-04-02 23:47 ` [RFC PATCH 0/7] Moved code detection: ignore space on uniform indentation Jonathan Tan
2018-04-03  0:03   ` Jacob Keller
2018-04-03 19:00     ` Stefan Beller
2018-04-03 19:55       ` Jacob Keller [this message]

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