From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:18:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFH] xdiff shows trivially redundant diff.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604021517350.30205@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604021411300.23419@g5.osdl.org>

On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> I should have tried your pristine xdiff code myself before
>> bothering you, but I haven't (sorry).
>
> It definitely happens with plain libxdiff-0.17 too.
>
> In general, unless it's related to the "\ No newline" or the extra stuff
> on the "@@"-line, I'd be very surprised if we have any differences in the
> diff output wrt libxdiff-0.17. I was really pretty careful, and didn't
> change the code at all, just removed unnecessary files and functions.

So it does 0.18, that contains the "\ No newline" handling for text diff 
and patch. See my reply to Junio also.



- Davide