JGIT: discuss: diff/patch implementation

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?