On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:46:46AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Considering that --minimal isn't really an algorithm,... > > I think this discussion thread already settled that "minimal" *is* an > algorithm for the purpose of this topic, considering that the --minimal > option does not apply anything but myers. I don't know that it is settled. I proposed it as a concept, and nobody else objected. It is true that right _now_ --minimal doesn't do anything for non-myers algorithms, but in theory it could. IOW, it is a matter of the user's perspective whether the flag is "use the minimal Myers diff algorithm" versus "spend extra effort to make the diff more minimal, no matter which algorithm is being used". If the latter, it is only that we have not (yet) implemented the extra effort tweaks to the other algorithms. So I think we could go either way. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html