Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] teach --histogram to diff
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Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
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- Jul 13, 2011, 16:35 UTC
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes: > >> Have you looked at a patch that differs in output between Myers and >> patience, and then compared those to the histogram version? > > $ git log -p v1.6.6..v1.7.6 | git patch-id >/var/tmp/md > $ git log --histogram -p v1.6.6..v1.7.6 | git patch-id >/var/tmp/hd > $ diff -u0 /var/tmp/md /var/tmp/hd | > sed -ne '/^+/s/^+[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]* //p' | > while read commit > do > git show "$commit" >/var/tmp/1 > git show --histogram "$commit" >/var/tmp/2 > interdiff /var/tmp/1 /var/tmp/2 > done
Thanks for taking the time to run this.
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> shows there is one that gives vastly different appearance, but it all > boils down to which lines to take as common, and for this particular > example neither is more readable over the other (9560808f2ef5a34d2a). > > Running the above "show" with larger -U$n value shows there don't seem to > be any discrepancies between the two.
I suspect it's due to that change being mostly a lot of additions on the right side, without much deletions on the left.
-- Cheers, Ray Chuan