Re: Google Summer of Code 2013 (GSoC13)

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Feb 18, 2013, 19:53 UTC
Message-ID: <87mwv1wg96.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0ne3GX7wA1U0-TnMqU3mTFNe12TQ_s0=2MVJ=BMs8tirA@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

>>     * Cannot look at the diff in word-diff mode (and apply it normally).

[...]

> Also: Having to figure out, heuristically, when to actually turn it on
> might be a worthwhile feature, especially for services like GitHub.

Actually that's a pretty cute idea of its own. You could call it --smart-diff or some such, and define its output as "whatever diff format git thinks would be appropriate".

And given the current state of diff pipeline refactorization, the effort is probably on the order of magnitude of a GSoC...

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

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