Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2017, #01; Mon, 4)
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- Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
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- Dec 4, 2017, 23:46 UTC
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On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:46:43 -0800 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> * jt/diff-anchored-patience (2017-11-28) 1 commit > - diff: support anchoring line(s) > > "git diff" learned a variant of the "--patience" algorithm, to > which the user can specify which 'unique' line to be used as > anchoring points.
Is there anything I can do to progress this? Johannes Schindelin wrote that he is in favor of this feature [1]. He also remarked on the fact that the anchors are not freed [2], but I have replied [3] that it seems that diff arguments are not freed in general (so there would be no good place to put the freeing statements).
[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1712011447550.98586@virtualbox/ [2] https://public-inbox.org/git/alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1711300134560.6482@virtualbox/ [3] https://public-inbox.org/git/20171130152605.1b775e9cc2ddd7f917424448@google.com/