Re: [PATCH 0/8] Better heuristics make prettier diffs

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 4, 2016, 19:54 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqy44c1f90.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160804073833.7s3hh26hkalifima@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Not that you probably need more random cases of C code, but I happened
> to be looking at a diff in git.git today, b333d0d6, which is another
> regression for the compaction heuristic.

Wow, that one is _really_ bad. Does it have something to do with the removal being at the very end of the file?

> The indent heuristic here gets it right.

Looks that way.

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