From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 11:48:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] saner xdiff hunk callbacks
Message-ID: <xmqqh8gzpuns.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20181102063156.GA30252@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> ... it seems rather silly that we have xdiff generate a string
> just so that we can parse it from within the same process. So instead I
> improved the xdiff interface to pass the actual integers out, made use
> of it as appropriate, and then in the final patch we can just drop the
> buggy function entirely.

Acked-by: me.

Thanks.  This is exactly what I wanted to do for a very long time,
ever since I did the original xdiff-interface.c