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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Moved code detection: ignore space on uniform indentation

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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date
Apr 3, 2018, 19:00 UTC
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>>> The fun is in the last patch, which allows white space sensitive
>>> languages to trust the move detection, too. Each block that is marked as
>>> moved will have the same delta in {in-, de-}dentation.
>>> I would think this mode might be a reasonable default eventually.
>>
>> This sounds like a good idea. "Trust" is probably too strong a word, but
>> I can see this being useful even in non-whitespace-sensitive languages
>> with nested blocks (like C).
>
> The ability to detect moved code despite whitespace changes would be
> good, even while showing diffs with the whitespace intact.
That is what the last patch is about.
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Message 25 of 26 in “Moved code detection: ignore space on uniform indentation”
  1. 0/7 Moved code detection: ignore space on uniform indentationStefan Beller, Apr 2, 2018
  2. 2/7 xdiff/xdiffi.c: remove unneeded function declarationsStefan Beller, Apr 2, 2018
  3. 1/7 xdiff/xdiff.h: remove unused flagsStefan Beller, Apr 2, 2018
  4. 5/7 diff.c: refactor internal representation for coloring moved codeStefan Beller, Apr 2, 2018
  5. Jonathan TanApr 2, 2018
  6. Stefan BellerApr 3, 2018
  7. Stefan BellerApr 6, 2018
  8. Jonathan TanApr 6, 2018
  9. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 3, 2018
  10. Stefan BellerApr 3, 2018
  11. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 3, 2018
  12. diff: add a blocks mode for moved code detectionStefan Beller, Apr 3, 2018
  13. 6/7 diff.c: decouple white space treatment for move detection from generic optionStefan Beller, Apr 2, 2018
  14. Jonathan TanApr 3, 2018
  15. 7/7 diff.c: add --color-moved-ignore-space-delta optionStefan Beller, Apr 2, 2018
  16. Jonathan TanApr 3, 2018
  17. Stefan BellerApr 3, 2018
  18. Jonathan TanApr 3, 2018
  19. 3/7 diff.c: do not pass diff options as keydata to hashmapStefan Beller, Apr 2, 2018
  20. Jeff KingApr 6, 2018
  21. Stefan BellerApr 6, 2018
  22. 4/7 diff.c: adjust hash function signature to match hashmap expectationStefan Beller, Apr 2, 2018
  23. Jonathan TanApr 2, 2018
  24. Jacob KellerApr 3, 2018
  25. Stefan BellerApr 3, 2018
  26. Jacob KellerApr 3, 2018

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