On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 02:20:27PM -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> 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
>
That would be me aged 13-14.
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