Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > As I already said, --shift-ita is not quite descriptive and I think > it should be renamed to something else, but I kept that in the > following attempt to rewrite: > ... Please do not use that verbatim; it was full of typo and grammo. > After reading the three patches through, however, I do not think we > use the command line option anywhere. I'm inclined to say that we > shouldn't add it at all. Or at least do so in a separate follow-up > patch "now we have an internal mechanism, let's expose it anyway" at > the end. Which means that the last sentence in my attempted rewrite > should go. > > The patch to diff-lib.c machinery looks good. > > Thanks.