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From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] diff: check MIN_BLOCK_LENGTH at start of new block
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 10:22:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYd1rw8kCXyP8kSc0R2gxuRUDWrwfzPcGEBvMHXQe72Rw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16707a12715ea60e05b00f4eb887ee99cd4d7b71.1502491372.git.jonathantanmy@google.com>

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> wrote:
> When noticing that the current line is not the continuation of the
> current block, but the start of a new one, mark_color_as_moved() does
> not check the length of the current block. Perform that check.

As far as I remember that behavior is intentional, as indicated by
the succeeding test.

The whole MIN_BLOCK_LENGTH thing is a hack IMHO as we did not have
a better heuristic for suppressing uninteresting "moved" lines such as closing
braces in C.

The information that a thing is moved in between two blocks is more
valuable than pointing out it is just 'new' or 'old'.

As this is changing behavior in a way that seems controversial, can you
give your motivation/example for why this behavior is better?
(Do we want to put it into an option/mode?)

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-14 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-11 22:49 [RFC PATCH 0/3] Fixes to "diff --color-moved" MIN_BLOCK_LENGTH handling Jonathan Tan
2017-08-11 22:49 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] diff: avoid redundantly clearing a flag Jonathan Tan
2017-08-14 17:13   ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-11 22:49 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] diff: respect MIN_BLOCK_LENGTH for last block Jonathan Tan
2017-08-14 17:17   ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-11 22:49 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] diff: check MIN_BLOCK_LENGTH at start of new block Jonathan Tan
2017-08-14 17:22   ` Stefan Beller [this message]
2017-08-12  0:39 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] Fixes to "diff --color-moved" MIN_BLOCK_LENGTH handling Junio C Hamano
2017-08-14 17:29   ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-14 19:37     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-14 19:51       ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-15 17:07         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-14 21:31 ` [PATCH v2 " Jonathan Tan
2017-08-14 21:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] diff: avoid redundantly clearing a flag Jonathan Tan
2017-08-14 21:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] diff: respect MIN_BLOCK_LENGTH for last block Jonathan Tan
2017-08-14 21:31 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] diff: check MIN_BLOCK_LENGTH at start of new block Jonathan Tan
2017-08-14 22:46   ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-14 23:57 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] "diff --color-moved" with different heuristic Jonathan Tan
2017-08-14 23:57 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] diff: avoid redundantly clearing a flag Jonathan Tan
2017-08-14 23:57 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] diff: respect MIN_BLOCK_LENGTH for last block Jonathan Tan
2017-08-14 23:57 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] diff: define block by number of non-space chars Jonathan Tan
2017-08-15  2:29   ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-15 19:54   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-15 20:06     ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-15 20:53       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-16  1:27 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] "diff --color-moved" with yet another heuristic Jonathan Tan
2017-08-16  5:55   ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-16  1:27 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] diff: avoid redundantly clearing a flag Jonathan Tan
2017-08-16  1:27 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] diff: respect MIN_BLOCK_LENGTH for last block Jonathan Tan
2017-08-16  1:27 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] diff: define block by number of alphanumeric chars Jonathan Tan

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