Why wouldn't we make that the default if it results in more readable
patches?  The days when patches were being sent over dial-up lines with
pay-per-minute rates are long gone, so optimizing patches for transmit size
vs. human readability seems a poor trade off.

Bill

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Zoltan Kiss <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> We had a chat about this on Connect, a regular problem is that diff
> sometimes generates patch files which are hardly readable, because e.g. the
> new and old lines are mixed together into an incoherent mass. That's
> because it tries to do the smallest patch. You can change that behaviour:
>
> git diff --patience
> git config --global diff.algorithm patience
>
> It works especially when you replace large blocks of lines.
>
> Zoltan
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