Re: [PATCH 2/2] Allow fetch-pack to decide keeping the fetched pack without exploding

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2007, 10:55 UTC
Message-ID: <ep4phb$fef$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701231129501.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> P.S.: These patches make me dream of yet another diff format enhancement: 
> code moves! Of course, for this to be really usable, you'd also have to 
> automatically determine indent changes... You may say I'm a dreamer. But 
> I'm not the only one...

I wonder if it could be done with e.g.

--- a/fromfile
+++ b/somefile
<code movement or copying>

--- a/somefile
+++ b/somefile
<other changes>

The problem is that context differs usually for code movement.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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