From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: jt/diff-anchored-patience, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2017, #08; Tue, 28)
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 14:49:50 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1712011447550.98586@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1skh6fyz.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
Hi Junio,
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> * jt/diff-anchored-patience (2017-11-28) 1 commit
> - diff: support anchoring line(s)
>
> "git diff" learned a variant of the "--patience" algorithm, to
> which the user can specify which 'unique' line to be used as
> anchoring points.
FWIW I am very much in favor of this feature. I often wished for something
easy to make sure that certain lines (which I know are unchanged) are not
marked as "-" and then "+". And Jonathan's design (--anchor=<prefix>)
seems sound. If need be, I can always extend it to
(--anchor-regex=<pattern>).
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-01 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-29 1:17 What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2017, #08; Tue, 28) Junio C Hamano
2017-12-01 13:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-12-01 13:38 ` cc/require-tcl-tk-for-build, was " Johannes Schindelin
2017-12-01 13:49 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2017-12-01 13:56 ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-01 14:32 ` jn/reproducible-build, was " Johannes Schindelin
2017-12-01 15:41 ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-01 16:49 ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-12-03 0:27 ` Junio C Hamano
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