Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> While if we invert the two parents order we will have:
> - 3
> --1
> --2
> - 4
> -3
> -4
>
> While clearly, in both cases, the optimal solution would be close to:
> - 3
> --1
> --2
> -3
> --4
We should shoot for better readability as the primary goal. When I
am viewing "--cc" output, I find it easier to read if the lines for
the same parent are consecutive. That is, I find the right one far
easier to grok than the left one:
- 1 - 1
-2 - 3
- 3 -2
-4 -4
when trying to see what got changed from the first parent (we had 1
and then 3 and whatever comes after this block; 2 and 4 are noise
and it makes it easier to skip them because they are together).
This can probably be done as a post-process phase after you find the
coalescing matches to express the result in the smallest number of
lines, but I thought it is worth mentioning that not all solutions
with the same number of lines are equally good.
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