On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Kevin Grittner
wrote:
> An interesting exercise it so think about what
> real-life lines you could have which would have multiple occurrences
> in this pattern, and think about whether you would then prefer the
> --patience output, especially if this were part of a
Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> There is a very simple example posted on some of the blog posts
>> that goes something like
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>> xyz
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>> and the "xyz" is moved to the front. In this corner case, the
>> pa
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Alvaro Herrera
wrote:
> Excerpts from Kevin Grittner's message of jue sep 30 16:38:11 -0400 2010:
>
> > When I read the description of the algorithm, I can't imagine a
> > situation where --patience would make the diff *worse*. I was
> > somewhat afraid (based on t
Excerpts from Kevin Grittner's message of jue sep 30 16:38:11 -0400 2010:
> When I read the description of the algorithm, I can't imagine a
> situation where --patience would make the diff *worse*. I was
> somewhat afraid (based on the name) that it would be slow; but
> if it is slower, it hasn't
Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> The with-patience version has only two hunks, removal of a big
> block of comment and addition of a big block of code.
>
> The without-patience patience is riddled with the mix of two
> hunks, spread until line 120.
>
> --patience is a clear winner here.
When I read th
Attached are two versions of the same patch, with and without --patience.
The with-patience version has only two hunks, removal of a big block of
comment and addition of a big block of code.
The without-patience patience is riddled with the mix of two hunks, spread
until line 120.
--patience is
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Do you have an existing commit where you see a difference so I can
> try it and see if there is some other problem that my local
> configuration has?
Random poking around in the postgresql.git commits didn't turn up
any where it mattered, so here's before and after fi
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I have tried this switch various times now and haven't seen any
> difference at all in the output. Do you have an existing commit
> where you see a difference so I can try it and see if there is
> some other problem that my local configuration has?
Having looked at i
On ons, 2010-09-15 at 12:58 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> I just discovered the --patience flag on the git diff command, and
> I'd like to suggest that we encourage people to use it when possible
> for building patches. I just looked at output with and without it
> (and for good measure, before a
Kevin Grittner wrote:
> I just discovered the --patience flag on the git diff command, and
> I'd like to suggest that we encourage people to use it when possible
> for building patches. I just looked at output with and without it
> (and for good measure, before and after filterdiff --format=contex
I just discovered the --patience flag on the git diff command, and
I'd like to suggest that we encourage people to use it when possible
for building patches. I just looked at output with and without it
(and for good measure, before and after filterdiff --format=context
for both), and the results w
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