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Re: [PATCH] xdiff: Show function names in hunk headers.

From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Mar 28, 2006, 11:07 UTC
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Mark Wooding wrote:
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> 
> The function names are parsed by a particularly stupid algorithm at the
> moment: it just tries to find a line in the `old' file, from before the
> start of the hunk, whose first character looks plausible.  Still, it's
> most definitely a start.
>

Stupid is sometimes good. I've noticed that the gnu diff algorithm sometimes won't notice changes in small structs, though they are large enough for the surrounding context in the unified diff not to show it either.

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