From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:13:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Move bundle specific stuff into bundle.[ch]
Message-ID: <7vy7he8cjl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070718032907.GY32566@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> What about a patch format like this?  I doubt people move more than
> 26 blocks in the same patch of the same file, so using a single
> character block prefix when the before/after images are identical
> might work OK.
>
> diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh
> index 0443129..f13fa80 100755
> --- a/git-gui.sh
> +++ b/git-gui.sh
> a@@ -632,6 +632,43 a@@ You are using [git-version]:
>   
>   ######################################################################
>   ##
> a+## feature option selection
> ...
> a+
> a+######################################################################
> a+##
>   ## repository setup
>   
>   if {[catch {
> a@@ -1598,43 +1635,6 a@@ apply_config
>   
>   ######################################################################
>   ##
> a-## feature option selection
> ....
> a-##
>   ## ui construction
>   
>   set ui_comm {}

Gaah, my eyes, my *eyes*!!

	runs, stays in bathroom for 10 minutes and washes, and
        comes back...

It might not be actually so bad.  But I wonder if it would be
more obvious if you do not show the whole "a-" lines but leave
just a marker there.  That is (ugliness of "a@@" and "a-" that
made me wash my eyes needs to be fixed, though -- but that is
only the syntax):

a@@ -1598,43 +1635,6 a@@ apply_config
  
  ######################################################################
  ##
a-<<< Block a was originally here >>>
  ## ui construction
  
  set ui_comm {}

You are coming up with a new output format that is only used
when it is a straight move and nothing else, so by definition
there is really no need to show both removal and addition.