Re: [PATCH] diff: Fix rename pretty-print when suffix and prefix overlap

From: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 25, 2013, 22:41 UTC
Message-ID: <CALWbr2w47K0jqrKaQs3eTUtQ18_L5TrLR=BttspKACT7vCmWEA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <512BE787.1090901@iee.org>

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>>> In this example, the common prefix would be "a/b/" and the common
>>> suffix that does not overlap with the prefix part would be "/c", so
>>> I am imagining that "a/b/{ => b}/c" would be the desired output?
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>> Yes, at least that's what I expected.
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> Surely it would be "a/b/{b => }/c", that is, we have reduced the number of
> b's by one. Or am I misunderstanding something?
> (I'm guessing it was an all too obvious typo that was misread)

Indeed, read to fast and reproduced in suggested new message. a/b/b/c => a/b/c is equivalent to a/b/{b => }/c

Thank you for proof-reading.