From: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:20:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a test for a problem in "rebase --whitespace=fix"
Message-ID: <6672d0161002101220h34ebbda8o3fde503d41c8313e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vzl3i137f.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

2010/2/9 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> I actually changed my mind after thinking about it a bit more.

Thanks for thinking more about it and for your explanation
about the algorithm

I am quite busy at the moment, but I hope to get started
on a patch series after the end of February.

> I'd like to see this logic (and only this logic, without relying on the
> diff hunk offset numbers at all) done first, because it is very much in
> line with what we already do, and more importantly, because it is a more
> general solution that is applicable outside the context of rebase.

I'll try to implement that logic. It seems that it should cover
99% of all real-world use cases. I will not worry about the general
case (tons of blanks) until I have got the first patch working.

-- 
Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB