From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:42:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: Introduce diff.algorithm variable
Message-ID: <7vsjhev0hy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vmx7p62k1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> The last two hunks gives me a queasy feeling for some reason.  I
> think I recently saw a patch to clean up this area to clarify that
> PATIENCE/HISTOGRAM are not independent option bits (but I cannot
> remember where) and we probably should use the approach taken by
> that patch.

I did some digging; no wonder I remember it---it is one of the stuff
I wrote and then later discarded.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/191036/focus=191038

I think this "algorithm" thing should build on that patch, even
though the later parts of the series in that thread has turned out
to be unwanted.

Thanks.