On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 11:47:02 +0900 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thinking about this a bit more, I do like the basic idea of the UI > even better. What we could do is to sell this to the end users as a > new kind of diff algorithm choice (i.e. myers, patience, ... will > gain a new friend) that internally happens to be implemented by > piggybacking on patience (just like minimal is piggybacking on > myers) and call it "anchor". Then just like this command line > > git diff --histogram --patience > > makes the last one win without complaint, it is sane that these > command lines > > git diff --histogram --anchored=<pattern> > git diff --anchored=<pattern> --histogram > > make the last one win without complaint, either. > > Hmm? This sounds good. There will be a bit of inconsistency in that in "git diff --anchored=<pattern1> --anchored=<pattern2>", it is not the last one that wins, but both of them will in fact be used. But I think that in practice, this will be fine. I'll send out another version with this UI (and with Stefan's test suggestion).
