Sergey Organov <sorganov@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I figured the offender is --indent-heuristic that is described in the > manual as: > > Enable the heuristic that shifts diff hunk boundaries to make > patches easier to read. This is the default. > > but apparently rather makes patches harder to read, at least at some > conditions. Turning it off helps to get the expected result: As a heuristic, it is not surprising that it has some corner cases where it does not shine. I think the version that was eventually merged starts here https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover.1473068229.git.mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ and we should be able to find a few links to the original observation that motivated the change, e.g. https://public-inbox.org/git/cover.1470259583.git.mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ Thanks.
