Enabling the diff "indent" heuristic by default

[Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>]

On 2017-05-08 03:48 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> * mb/diff-default-to-indent-heuristics (2017-05-02) 4 commits
>   (merged to 'next' on 2017-05-08 at 158f401a92)

I think there's a general open question about this, which is whether or 
not we should just drop the diff.indentHeuristic configuration setting 
altogether.

Peff made the point [0] that if we keep the setting then t4061 should be 
rewritten.

My instinct is to keep the setting, at least until the changed default 
has a bit of time to settle in.  So I'll re-send the topic with the 
renovated t4061.

The topic would of course change more drastically if we decide to drop 
the setting right away.

>  + add--interactive: drop diff.indentHeuristic handling
>  + diff: enable indent heuristic by default
>  + diff: have the diff-* builtins configure diff before initializing revisions
>  + diff: make the indent heuristic part of diff's basic configuration
>
>  Make the "indent" heuristics the default in "diff" and diff.indentHeuristics

s/heuristics/heuristic/  (both places)

>  configuration variable an escape hatch for those who do no want it.

s/do no/do not/

>  Will cook in 'next'.

Both Peff [1] and Ævar [2] mentioned situations where enabling the 
heuristic has a small impact on them.  If/when this graduates, it's 
perhaps worth adding a backward-compatibility note that the default 
patch IDs are changing.  Maybe something like:

The diff "indent" heuristic is now enabled by default.  This changes the 
patch IDs calculated by git-patch-id and used by git-cherry, which could 
affect patch-based workflows that rely on previously-computed patch IDs. 
  The heuristic can be disabled by setting diff.indentHeuristic to false.

[0] 
https://public-inbox.org/git/20170501222051.svylxazjwnot3wwg@sigill.intra.peff.net/

[1] 
https://public-inbox.org/git/20170428220450.olqitnuwhrxzg3pv@sigill.intra.peff.net/

[2] 
https://public-inbox.org/git/CACBZZX5f81HKCjRjTDyXzNMVuef9Z_ECS+0SVk2xpbwXudgxCw@mail.gmail.com/

		M.