Re: [PATCH 2/2] xdiff: implement empty line chunk heuristic

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On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 08:17:38AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > I guess this will invalidate old patch-ids, but there's not much to be
>> > done about that.
>>
>> What do you mean by that? (What consequences do you imagine?)
>> I think diffs with any kind of heuristic can still be applied, no?
>
> I mean that if you save any old patch-ids from "git patch-id", they
> won't match up when compared with new versions of git. We can probably
> ignore it, though. This isn't the first time that patch-ids might have
> changed, and I think the advice is already that one should not count on
> them to be stable in the long term.
>
> -Peff

Plus they'll be stable within a version of Git, it's only recorded
patch ids that change, which hopefully isn't done very much if at all.

Thanks,
Jake
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