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Subject: Re: JGIT: discuss: diff/patch implementation
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Le Monday 10 November 2008 16:56:35 Robin Rosenberg, vous avez =E9crit=A0=
:
[...]
> >
> > I found this:
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch
> >
> > Its license is the Apache 2.0 license. It implements the same algor=
ithm
> > than git's internal diff engine ("An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and=
 its
> > Variations", by Eugene Myers), and as far as I can tell so far (IAN=
AL,
> > far from it), it is compatible with JGit's current license.
> >
> > Could this be a viable candidate?
>
> Our approach was to do just that, for the very reasons you mention.
> I'll have a look. Thanks for doing some research for us. That project=
 was
> unknown to me..
>
> -- robin

Well, this API has a problem from the get go, since it does... Char by =
char=20
comparison. Ouch.

I'll try and hack it so that it does line by line, but given my Java sk=
ills,=20
uh...

--=20
fge