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

> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >  On Sun, 4 May 2008, Ping Yin wrote:
> >
> >  > 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?
> 
> Because we need recover the replaced character.
> 
> Say, for a common diff line " foo", after restoring the replaced 
> character, the corresponding line in minus and plus may be different. 
> For example, "foo(" and "foo)".