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Re: Feature request: Reduce amount of diff in patch

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 7, 2017, 20:28 UTC
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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
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> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 8:09 AM, KES <kes-kes@yandex.ru> wrote:
> ...
>> May you please fix the git to generate minimized patches?
>
> You can use a different diff algorithm.
> ...
> Soon we'll have another diff algorithm "anchor" that tries to
> keep a given line out of the +/- but rather move other lines around
> the line to give equal results.

While all of the above is correct, my understanding is that none of them would produce a patch that KES wants to see.

And we shouldn't ;-) The two changes KES shows in the message are not equivalent.

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  1. KESNov 28, 2017
  2. Kaartic SivaraamNov 28, 2017
  3. Stefan BellerDec 7, 2017
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2017

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