{"thread":{"id":"40887","subject":"diff --minimal versus --diff-algorithm=minimal","startedAt":"2015-11-25T18:21:50Z","lastAt":"2015-11-25T18:21:50Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Дилян Палаузов"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"273748","messageId":"5655FC3E.7090705@aegee.org","threadId":"40887","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"diff --minimal versus --diff-algorithm=minimal","fromName":"Дилян Палаузов","fromEmail":"dilyan.palauzov@aegee.org","sentAt":"2015-11-25T18:21:50Z","receivedAt":"2015-11-25T18:21:50Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"dilyan.palauzov@aegee.org","avatar":null},"body":"Hello,\n\nafter I put in ~/.config/git \"[diff] algorithm=histogram\", and called \n\"git diff --minimal\" I expect from git to use algorithm=minimal.  But it \nuses histogram, unless I call \"--diff-algorithm=minimal\".  According to \nthe documentation, however, --minimal and --diff-algorithm=minimal shall \nbe equivalent.\n\nBy the way, histogram produces more compact output than minimal (in \nterms of number of lines and in terms of @@ ... @@ snippets), but the \ndocumentation suggests, that minimal produces the most compact form that \ncan be achieved.\n\nI use git version 2.6.3.385.g1bc8fea.\n\nGreetings\n   Дилян\n"}]}