From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:45:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Teach Git about the patience diff algorithm
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901011134210.5086@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901011730190.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>



On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> Nothing fancy, really, just a straight-forward implementation of the
> heavily under-documented and under-analyzed paience diff algorithm.

Exactly because the patience diff is so under-documented, could you 
perhaps give a few examples of how it differs in the result, and why it's 
so wonderful? Yes, yes, I can google, and no, no, nothing useful shows up 
except for *totally* content-free fanboisms. 

So could we have some actual real data on it?

			Linus