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From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	davidel@xmailserver.org, Francis Galiegue <fg@one2team.net>,
	Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Teach Git about the patience diff algorithm
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:15:17 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231359317.6011.12.camel@maia.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901062037250.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 20:40 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Although I would like to see it in once it is fleshed out -- even if it 
> does not meet our usefulness standard -- because people said Git is 
> inferior for not providing a patience diff.  If we have --patience, we can 
> say "but we have it, it's just not useful, check for yourself".

Whatever happens, the current deterministic diff algorithm needs to stay
for generating patch-id's... those really can't be allowed to change.

Sam.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-07 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-04  0:40 libxdiff and patience diff Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-04  3:17 ` Davide Libenzi
2008-11-04  8:33   ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-04  5:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-04  8:30   ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-04 14:34     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-04 15:23       ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-04 15:57         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-04 16:15           ` Pierre Habouzit
2009-01-01 16:38         ` [PATCH 0/3] Teach Git about the patience diff algorithm Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-01 16:38           ` [PATCH 1/3] Implement " Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-01 16:39           ` [PATCH 2/3] Introduce the diff option '--patience' Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-01 16:39           ` [PATCH 3/3] bash completions: Add the --patience option Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-01 19:45           ` [PATCH 0/3] Teach Git about the patience diff algorithm Linus Torvalds
2009-01-01 20:00             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 18:17               ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-02 18:49                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 19:07                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-02 18:51                 ` Jeff King
2009-01-02 21:59               ` [PATCH 1/3 v2] Implement " Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-02 21:59                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-01 20:46             ` [PATCH 0/3] Teach Git about " Adeodato Simó
2009-01-02  1:56               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 10:55                 ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-01-02 10:58                   ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-01-02 16:42                     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 18:46                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-02 19:03                         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 19:22                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-02 19:39                           ` Jeff King
2009-01-02 19:50                             ` Jeff King
2009-01-02 20:52                               ` Jeff King
2009-01-02 23:05                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-03 16:24                             ` Bazaar's patience diff as GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF Adeodato Simó
2009-01-02 21:59                       ` [PATCH 0/3] Teach Git about the patience diff algorithm Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-08 19:55                       ` Adeodato Simó
2009-01-08 20:06                         ` Adeodato Simó
2009-01-09  6:54                         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-09 13:07                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-09 15:59                             ` Adeodato Simó
2009-01-09 18:09                             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-09 18:13                               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-09 20:53                             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-10 11:36                               ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-02 11:03                   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-02 18:50                 ` Adeodato Simó
2009-01-06 11:17     ` Pierre Habouzit
2009-01-06 11:39       ` Pierre Habouzit
2009-01-06 19:40       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-07 14:39         ` Pierre Habouzit
2009-01-07 17:01           ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-07 17:04             ` [PATCH v3 1/3] Implement " Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-07 18:10               ` Davide Libenzi
2009-01-07 18:32                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-07 20:09                   ` Davide Libenzi
2009-01-07 20:19                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-07 18:59                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-07 20:00                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-07 20:11                   ` Davide Libenzi
2009-01-07 20:15         ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2009-01-07 20:25           ` [PATCH 0/3] Teach Git about " Linus Torvalds
2009-01-08  2:31             ` Sam Vilain
2009-01-07 20:38           ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-07 20:48             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-07 22:00               ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-07 22:45                 ` Pierre Habouzit
2009-01-07 23:03                   ` Johannes Schindelin

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