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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.