On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:46:43 -0800 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > * jt/diff-anchored-patience (2017-11-28) 1 commit > - diff: support anchoring line(s) > > "git diff" learned a variant of the "--patience" algorithm, to > which the user can specify which 'unique' line to be used as > anchoring points. Is there anything I can do to progress this? Johannes Schindelin wrote that he is in favor of this feature [1]. He also remarked on the fact that the anchors are not freed [2], but I have replied [3] that it seems that diff arguments are not freed in general (so there would be no good place to put the freeing statements). [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1712011447550.98586@virtualbox/ [2] https://public-inbox.org/git/alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1711300134560.6482@virtualbox/ [3] https://public-inbox.org/git/20171130152605.1b775e9cc2ddd7f917424448@xxxxxxxxxx/
