On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 03:23:42PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, Jeff King wrote: > > > I find the diff hard to read because it shows the opposite of what I did > > (moving the big block to its own function, rather than moving the little > > bits to a new copy of the function). > > I guess --patience would have made it slightly more readable. I did not > find any commit in your fork on GitHub with the commit subject, else I > would have pasted the output of `git diff --patience` here. I hadn't pushed it yet (but it's there now, 130217f4a). Neither --patience nor --histogram produces markedly different results. I think the issue is just that what I actually did (moving the big inner block) is not nearly as minimal a diff as moving what surrounds it. -Peff