From: Eric Sunshine Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 08:01:03 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 17/20] range-diff: add a man page Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <799da25ef35d2b23dc0df1e6af0772e634f39f19.1530617166.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 7:27 AM Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > 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 > --- > 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.