From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:15:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Teach Git about the patience diff algorithm
Message-ID: <1231359317.6011.12.camel@maia.lan>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901062037250.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 20:40 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 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".

Whatever happens, the current deterministic diff algorithm needs to stay
for generating patch-id's... those really can't be allowed to change.

Sam.