Why a _full_ diff? (was: [PATCH] Char: serial167, cleanup (fwd))

	Hi,

I received the email below, showing a _full_ (i.e. every single line) diff between the old and the new version:

| Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:00:54 GMT
| From: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
| To: git-commits-head@vger.kernel.org
| Subject: [PATCH] Char: serial167, cleanup
| 
| Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=44bafdf37b30234671d4e2fb595dea4c3717d089
| Commit:     44bafdf37b30234671d4e2fb595dea4c3717d089
| Parent:     30a063a900518926966f4d75333c1bfbde1658fa
| Author:     Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
| AuthorDate: Sat Feb 10 01:45:08 2007 -0800
| Committer:  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
| CommitDate: Sun Feb 11 10:51:28 2007 -0800
| 
|     [PATCH] Char: serial167, cleanup
|     
|     serial167, cleanup
|     
|     - Lindent the code
|     - remove 3 pointers from paranoia_check
|     
|     Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
|     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
|     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| ---
|  drivers/char/serial167.c | 5616 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
|  1 files changed, 2792 insertions(+), 2824 deletions(-)
| 
| diff --git a/drivers/char/serial167.c b/drivers/char/serial167.c
| dissimilarity index 67%
| index af50d32..5fd314a 100644
| --- a/drivers/char/serial167.c
| +++ b/drivers/char/serial167.c
| @@ -1,2824 +1,2792 @@
| -/*
| - * linux/drivers/char/serial167.c
| - *

    [...]

| -#endif
| -
| -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
| +/*
| + * linux/drivers/char/serial167.c
| + *

    [...]

| +#endif
| +
| +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
| -
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At first I thought the new version had CR/LF line endings or so, but that isn't the case.

Just using

| anakin$ git show 44bafdf37b30234671d4e2fb595dea4c3717d089 | diffstat
|  serial167.c | 3322 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------
|  1 file changed, 1645 insertions(+), 1677 deletions(-)
| anakin$

shows that far from all lines were changed.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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