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 > > _______________________________________________ > lng-odp mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/lng-odp > >
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