Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > We probably want a patch to the release notes to note that it's not on
> > by default. And we may want to advertise the experimental knob so
> > that people actually try it (otherwise we won't get feedback from the
> > masses).
>
> OK, I think that is sensible. The interdiff is not a strict
> reversion of 77085a61 (diff: undocument the compaction heuristic
> knobs for experimentation, 2016-05-02) but stresses that the
> feature is off by default and is experimental.
This is for 'master' when the topic is merged (will keep it in stash
for now).
Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
index 927cb9b..79b46e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
@@ -118,9 +118,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* HTTP transport clients learned to throw extra HTTP headers at the
server, specified via http.extraHeader configuration variable.
- * Patch output from "git diff" and friends has been tweaked to be
- more readable by using a blank line as a strong hint that the
- contents before and after it belong to logically separate units.
+ * The "--compaction-heuristic" option to "git diff" family of
+ commands enables a heuristic to make the patch output more readable
+ by using a blank line as a strong hint that the contents before and
+ after it belong to logically separate units. It is still
+ experimental.
* A new configuration variable core.hooksPath allows customizing
where the hook directory is.
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