Re: [PATCH 0/3] Teach Git about the patience diff algorithm

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> If we find the "common" context lines that have only blank and 
> >> punctuation letters in Dscho output, turn each of them into "-" and "+", 
> >> and rearrange them so that all "-" are together followed by "+", it will 
> >> match Bzr output.
> >
> > So we'd need something like this (I still think we should treat curly 
> > brackets the same as punctuation, and for good measure I just handled 
> > everything that is not alphanumerical the same):
> 
> I meant by punctuation to include curlies (my wording may have been wrong
> but from the example with " }" line it should have been obvious).
> 
> But I agree with both points Linus raised.  The criteria to pick what to
> pretend unmatching should be "small insignificant lines" (small goes for
> both size and also number of consecutive "insignificant" lines), and the
> coallescing should be done to join a block of consecutive changed lines of
> a significant size (so you do not join two 1 or 2-line "changed line"
> blocks by pretending that a 1-line unchanged insignificant line in between
> them is unmatching).