Sublinear solution without patch is below.
On Sept 28, 2006 Martin Waitz wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:12:49AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> No _way_ is it correct to show more than three characters if there were >> three lines of changes. >> >> I think "nonlinear" is fine, but this is something that is "superlinear" >> in small changes, and then sublinear in bigger ones (and then apparently >> totally wrong for one-line changes). >> >> It should at least never be superlinear, I believe. > > So if we want to keep the logarithmic scale we can do some maths: > Assume we use a formula ala > length = a log(change + b) + c
You are probably looking for much simpler, log-less, and pure integer:
length = width * change / (width + change) + 1
Assuming target witdth of 40, for example, it will produce
Change Length 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 10 9 20 14 30 18 50 23 100 29 1000 39 10000 40 1000000 40
-- Alexei