Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Carl Lowenstein wrote: > >> Is this something that could be helped by use of indent(1)? To unify >> the brace style and make the source more amenable to diff? I presume >> you are already using "diff -w" to ignore whitespace. > > Neither is likely to help. > > Since the files are being compared to a merged copy, the indentation and > whitespace are identical. > > The issue seems to be that diff stops after matching even small chunks. > It could possibly be something like lack of backtracking in the diff > algorithms.
Is is possible to come up with a relatively simple test case that demonstrates bad behavior? ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
