From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 16:51:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xdiff: implement empty line chunk heuristic
Message-ID: <xmqqbn5535l5.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160419050342.GA19439@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I guess this will invalidate old patch-ids, but there's not much to be
> done about that.

If we really cared, we could disable this (and any future) change to
the compaction logic to "patch-id --[un]stable" option.

I am not sure if it is worth the effort, though ;-)