From: Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 18:09:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Is --minimal ever not the right thing?
Message-ID: <20231219210949.747ddd50@RedEyes>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BEmgOAj17DozyXNaf-9CawDic4uTpMbckef3+zHf7URqQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 09:55:34 -0800
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> wrote:

> minimal is guaranteed to produce a minimal diff, i.e. fewest total
> subtractions and additions.  That is sometimes "best" quality, but
> definitely not always. 

I second this. Recently I had a case when I had to use --anchored
option of git diff to produce more informative diff instead of minimal
one.