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From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] perhaps we want to support copied-context diff output
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 09:53:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071208085302.GA13432@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vmyslwqdr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

> Perhaps we may want to add "diff -c" (copied context) output format as
> an option, which may be easier to read.

Or maybe use the patience diff.

On a testcase I had a few months ago, patience diff would give:
@@ -42,11 +42,10 @@

 include $(DEPTH)/config/autoconf.mk

+EXTRA_COMPONENTS = nsKillAll.js
+
 include $(topsrcdir)/config/rules.mk

-libs::
-       $(INSTALL) $(srcdir)/nsKillAll.js $(DIST)/bin/components
-
 clean::
        rm -f $(DIST)/bin/components/nsKillAll.js

Where "normal" diff would give:
@@ -42,10 +42,9 @@

 include $(DEPTH)/config/autoconf.mk

-include $(topsrcdir)/config/rules.mk
+EXTRA_COMPONENTS = nsKillAll.js

-libs::
-       $(INSTALL) $(srcdir)/nsKillAll.js $(DIST)/bin/components
+include $(topsrcdir)/config/rules.mk

 clean::
        rm -f $(DIST)/bin/components/nsKillAll.js

git outputs the same as the normal diff, bzr and svn seem to use the
patience diff. Mercurial outputs almost the same as bzr and svn:
@@ -42,10 +42,9 @@

 include $(DEPTH)/config/autoconf.mk

+EXTRA_COMPONENTS = nsKillAll.js
+
 include $(topsrcdir)/config/rules.mk
-
-libs::
-       $(INSTALL) $(srcdir)/nsKillAll.js $(DIST)/bin/components

 clean::
        rm -f $(DIST)/bin/components/nsKillAll.js

Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-08  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-08  5:00 [PATCH 1/2] pack-objects: reverse the delta search sort list Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-08  8:18 ` [OT] perhaps we want to support copied-context diff output Junio C Hamano
2007-12-08  8:53   ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2007-12-08 11:10     ` Peter Baumann

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