Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] merge: setup `opts` later in `checkout_fast_forward()`

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: May 16, 2018, 16:41 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYBykcbzKxc_FHiL6dt=jkmK2Khe-e5aSxFephe=RsBFA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <0b7440f21e9ff7a066802fe1e7cb3078cf4ed2b8.1526488122.git.martin.agren@gmail.com>

+ Jonathan Tan for a side discussion on anchoring.

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 9:30 AM, Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> wrote:

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> This patch is best viewed using something like this (note the tab!):
> --color-moved --anchored="      trees[nr_trees] = parse_tree_indirect"

Heh! Having a "is best viewed" paragraph is the new shiny thing in commit messages as 'git log origin/pu --grep "is best viewed"' tells me.

Regarding the anchoring, I wonder if we can improve it by ignoring whitespaces or just looking for substrings, or by allowing regexes or ...

Thanks, Stefan

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