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From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Teach Git about the patience diff algorithm
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:15:17 +1300
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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.