Re: [PATCH v3 17/20] range-diff: add a man page

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Jul 16, 2018, 08:01 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSin5Em1m7uigSLnNg9wbz+fz8uy4sJOECq2Ke2+v+D4A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <799da25ef35d2b23dc0df1e6af0772e634f39f19.1530617166.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 7:27 AM Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:

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> The bulk of this patch consists of a heavily butchered version of
> tbdiff's README written by Thomas Rast and Thomas Gummerer, lifted from
> https://github.com/trast/tbdiff.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-range-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-range-diff.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,235 @@
> +To that end, it first finds pairs of commits from both commit ranges
> +that correspond with each other. Two commits are said to correspond when
> +the diff between their patches (i.e. the author information, the commit
> +message and the commit diff) is reasonably small compared to the
> +patches' size. See ``Algorithm` below for details.

Unbalanced number of backticks on "Algorithm".

> +Finally, the list of matching commits is shown in the order of the
> +second commit range, with unmatched commits being inserted just after
> +all of their ancestors have been shown.