Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] fn_out_diff_words_aux: Handle common diff line more carefully

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 4, 2008, 09:54 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805041053380.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <1209874815-14411-6-git-send-email-pkufranky@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 4 May 2008, Ping Yin wrote:

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> Before feeding minus and plus lines into xdi_diff, we replace non word
> characters with '\n'. So we need recover the replaced character (always
> the last character) in the callback fn_out_diff_words_aux.
> 
> Therefore, a common diff line beginning with ' ' is not always a real
> common line.

Umm, why?

> And we should check the last characters of the common diff line. If they 
> are different, we should output the first len-1 characters as the common 
> part and then the last characters in minus and plus separately.

Umm, why?

Ciao, Dscho

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