From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Koch Subject: Searching explanation of different diff algorithms Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:24:15 +0200 Message-ID: <201309250924.15741.thomas@koch.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 25 09:30:49 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VOjYe-0008Qf-VH for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:30:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751165Ab3IYHao (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Sep 2013 03:30:44 -0400 Received: from emita2.mittwald.de ([188.94.250.252]:38484 "EHLO emita2.mittwald.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750712Ab3IYHao (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Sep 2013 03:30:44 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 381 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 03:30:43 EDT Received: from mx51.mymxserver.com (mail5111.internal [172.16.51.11]) by emita2.mittwald.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E03D38DFAD for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:24:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.mx51.mymxserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201341986AC for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:24:22 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by Mittwald Mailscanner Received: from mx51.mymxserver.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx51.mymxserver.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id XV9EkZk+LlNk for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:24:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from koch.localnet (gw.ptr-80-238-177-71.customer.ch.netstream.com [80.238.177.71]) (Authenticated sender: koch@comsolit.ch) by mx51.mymxserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02EF719869C for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:24:21 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.10-0.bpo.2-amd64; KDE/4.8.4; x86_64; ; ) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Is there any explanation available of the different merrits and drawbacks of the diff algorithms that Git supports? I'm not satisfied with the default diff but have enough processing power for a slower algorithm that might produce diffs that better show the intention of the edit. Thank you, Thomas Koch