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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jan 9, 2009, 18:13 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901091011350.6528@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901091001260.6528@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> Don't combine unique lines, but lines that have the same hash as a 
> thousand other lines? Go right ahead.

Oh, and even then, don't ever combine fragments unless it's a single line, and unless you can really stop with just one or two combines. Because we don't want to combine 100 one-liner changes (on every other line) into one 300-line change.

		Linus

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