Hi,
I guess because git was made for the Linux kernel originally, and when
you have bazillions of patches in huge branches, that makes a
difference. Maybe not.
But indeed, I think we can set this for odp repos as default config. You
can set it on a per repository basis, and I guess you can publish that
setting for whoever checks out the repo.
Here are more details about the algorithm:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4045017/what-is-git-diff-patience-for
On 26/02/15 04:24, Bill Fischofer wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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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