Re: [PATCH 2/2] xdiff: implement empty line chunk heuristic

> "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> writes:
> 
> > True. I think the chances that it needs such a thing are quite minor,
> > and if an undocumented knob gets exposed it would have to become
> > documented and maintained, so I'd prefer to avoid it. Given that the
> > risk is pretty small I think that's ok.
> 
> OK, then let's do only the "documentation" part.
> 
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> Subject: [PATCH] diff: undocument the compaction heuristic knobs for experimentation
> 
> It seems that people around here are all happy with the updated
> heuristics used to decide where the hunks are separated.  Let's keep
> that as the default.  Even though we do not expect too much trouble
> from the difference between the old and the new algorithms, just in
> case let's leave the implementation of the knobs to turn it off for
> emergencies.  There is no longer need for documenting them, though.