From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:13:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Teach Git about the patience diff algorithm
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