måndag 10 november 2008 15:22:13 skrev Francis Galiegue: > Hello, > > A very nice git feature, without even going as far as merges, is the cherry > pick feature. > > For this to be doable from within the Eclipse Git plugin, a diff/patch > implementation needs to be found, in a license compatible with the current > JGit license (3-clause BSD, as far as I can tell). Or a new implementation > can be rewritten from scratch, of course. > > I found this: > > http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch > > Its license is the Apache 2.0 license. It implements the same algorithm than > git's internal diff engine ("An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and its > Variations", by Eugene Myers), and as far as I can tell so far (IANAL, far > from it), it is compatible with JGit's current license. > > Could this be a viable candidate? Our approach was to do just that, for the very reasons you mention. I'll have a look. Thanks for doing some research for us. That project was unknown to me.. -- robin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
