From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:49:50 GMT
Subject: jt/diff-anchored-patience, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2017, #08; Tue, 28)
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1712011447550.98586@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1skh6fyz.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Hi Junio,

On Wed, 29 Nov 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> * jt/diff-anchored-patience (2017-11-28) 1 commit
>  - diff: support anchoring line(s)
> 
>  "git diff" learned a variant of the "--patience" algorithm, to
>  which the user can specify which 'unique' line to be used as
>  anchoring points.

FWIW I am very much in favor of this feature. I often wished for something
easy to make sure that certain lines (which I know are unchanged) are not
marked as "-" and then "+". And Jonathan's design (--anchor=<prefix>)
seems sound. If need be, I can always extend it to
(--anchor-regex=<pattern>).

Ciao,
Dscho