Re: [PATCH v2] diff: disable compaction heuristic for now

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 01:55:01PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> This is for 'master' when the topic is merged (will keep it in stash
> for now).
> 
>  Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
> index 927cb9b..79b46e1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
> @@ -118,9 +118,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
>   * HTTP transport clients learned to throw extra HTTP headers at the
>     server, specified via http.extraHeader configuration variable.
>  
> - * Patch output from "git diff" and friends has been tweaked to be
> -   more readable by using a blank line as a strong hint that the
> -   contents before and after it belong to logically separate units.
> + * The "--compaction-heuristic" option to "git diff" family of
> +   commands enables a heuristic to make the patch output more readable
> +   by using a blank line as a strong hint that the contents before and
> +   after it belong to logically separate units.  It is still
> +   experimental.
>  
>   * A new configuration variable core.hooksPath allows customizing
>     where the hook directory is.

Looks good.

I think your calendar calls for release 2.9.0 on Monday. Are you going
to bump the schedule for this? I don't think it's very high risk, and
wouldn't need to.

-Peff