From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:37:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] combine-diff: coalesce lost lines optimally
Message-ID: <7vhak9ps8w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1363525436-21667-1-git-send-email-apelisse@gmail.com>

Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> writes:

> +/* Coalesce new lines into base by finding LCS */
> +static struct lline *coalesce_lines(struct lline *base, int *lenbase,
> +				    struct lline *new, int lennew,
> +				    unsigned long parent)
> +{

Don't you want to pass flags so that you can use match_string_spaces()
at places like this:

> +	for (i = 1, baseend = base; i < origbaselen + 1; i++) {
> +		for (j = 1, newend = new; j < lennew + 1; j++) {
> +			if (baseend->len == newend->len &&
> +			    !memcmp(baseend->line, newend->line, baseend->len)) {

IOW, it looks to me that this wants to be rebuilt on top of
fa04ae0be8cc (Allow combined diff to ignore white-spaces,
2013-03-14).