Re: [PATCH 0/3] Teach Git about the patience diff algorithm

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Hi,

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Pierre Habouzit wrote:

> On jeu, jan 01, 2009 at 04:38:09 +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > Nothing fancy, really, just a straight-forward implementation of the
> > heavily under-documented and under-analyzed paience diff algorithm.
> 
> Btw, what is the status of this series ? I see it neither in pu nor in 
> next. And I would gladly see it included in git.

AFAICT people wanted to be reasonably sure that it is worth the effort.

Although I would like to see it in once it is fleshed out -- even if it 
does not meet our usefulness standard -- because people said Git is 
inferior for not providing a patience diff.  If we have --patience, we can 
say "but we have it, it's just not useful, check for yourself".

> On jeu, jan 01, 2009 at 07:45:21 +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > So could we have some actual real data on it?
> 
> For example, look at the following (shamelessly stolen from the real
> life example http://glandium.org/blog/?p=120).

Due to the lines being much longer than 80 characters, this example was 
not useful to me.

Ciao,
Dscho

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