On 26 February 2015 at 05:24, Bill Fischofer <[email protected]> wrote: > Why wouldn't we make that the default if it results in more readable > patches? +2
> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > lng-odp mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/lng-odp > _______________________________________________ lng-odp mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/lng-odp
