Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Teach diff to honor diff algorithms set through git attributes

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> On 21 Feb 2023, at 13:51, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> > Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> I'll leave that up to you and John, but are we risking merging code
> >> that could go unused or that we need to fundamentally change?  I don't
> >> see how to handle the issues over at
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/git/647D3D49-B85B-4B66-A857-695CFF9685EE@gmail.com/
> >
> > If this is useful enough for desktop users already, then that is a
> > good enough reason to take it, I would say.
> >
> > GitLab can easily add WebUI that says "You can define what diff
> > algorithm is used for files with which suffix" to allow you to
> > configure a table like this:
> >
> >       json | histogram
> >       c    | patience
> >       *    | myers
> >
> > and populate the server-side equivalent of .git/info/attributes and
> > .git/config based on that, and without anything further than the
> > posted patches, the result should just work, no?
>
> Yes, that is my thinking too. The goal was to make this user friendly for
> everyone on the Git command line, and then GitLab can hook into this accordingly
> to make it ussable with the GitLab UI.