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Re: [RFH] xdiff shows trivially redundant diff.

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Apr 3, 2006, 04:19 UTC
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On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> 
> Tomorrow I'll take a look at it.

Thanks. I've made the first "release" (2.6.17-rc1) with the new built-in diff, let's see if somebody has any issues.

But just the fact that I could do an almost 24MB diff (6MB compressed) with 738 _thousand_ lines in about 4 seconds is damn nice. The script I use to cut releases (logs, diffstats, tar-files etc) used to take a long time with BK, these days it's a couple of seconds.

		Linus
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