From: Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru>
To: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Castle <dalgoda@gmail.com>, Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>,
git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is --minimal ever not the right thing?
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 21:09:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231219210949.747ddd50@RedEyes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BEmgOAj17DozyXNaf-9CawDic4uTpMbckef3+zHf7URqQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 09:55:34 -0800
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> wrote:
> minimal is guaranteed to produce a minimal diff, i.e. fewest total
> subtractions and additions. That is sometimes "best" quality, but
> definitely not always.
I second this. Recently I had a case when I had to use --anchored
option of git diff to produce more informative diff instead of minimal
one.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-19 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-19 16:10 Is --minimal ever not the right thing? Tao Klerks
2023-12-19 17:25 ` Mike Castle
2023-12-19 17:55 ` Elijah Newren
2023-12-19 18:09 ` Konstantin Tokarev [this message]
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