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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Rework diff options
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I personally feel that the benefit of being able to make sure you 
>> covered everything outweighs the size of initial diff.
>
> IMHO the difficulty of finding bugs is proportional to the square of the 
> diff size, while the number of people willing to review it is proportional 
> to its square root. So, if it is not difficult (which it is not at all in 
> this case), I politely ask to cut the patch size down.

Yeah, your "renaming in private while you are making sure but
rename them back" suggestion actually would work in this case.