From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albretch Mueller Subject: diff'ing files ... Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 18:49:04 +0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 06 20:49:14 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QTerQ-0006Ng-4m for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:49:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756833Ab1FFStJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:49:09 -0400 Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:63897 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751308Ab1FFStG (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:49:06 -0400 Received: by eyx24 with SMTP id 24so1462839eyx.19 for ; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:49:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=ofnR7ea29TB8nwKhWuTzIQxyyh1PJAGwALSYfYzLIA4=; b=xEiwPZLEH/cf8J8ZsX9eqAfukLQCH+4PsfbPp2LgaXvokFQDA9WE/F98Vnv7FXiIwP y7a4SBJCOBhrPhgSV9pUaBCF7q/7pIVYzXXaH5mcGSLuww1dybgU0ymc64nHUnEKULHW Y5ncukDAlRb0Wv918pQEIJsrRh6kFWlyaC8pM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=kzT/kbZnAILIyHgmPyszO8uV8BEW+6GIJRx7FZTmmAk1HI7hPssrzJisJirScwnSN4 h2HpP2xUxD//ME/UUb/3hH+nuE7ii2g6gjh7PXFnnD3GuGG1sIJR25kzTEdrJ/J8f8mg wLrthHRrOuaswayI8vqA8YHG9pLLgpgBv5iEM= Received: by 10.14.52.65 with SMTP id d41mr2175512eec.85.1307386144782; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:49:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.119.131 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:49:04 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I research on collaborative editing/revision control utilities (related mostly to NLP) and at the corpora list ~ http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind1106&L=CORPORA#18 ~ ([Corpora-List] Managing texts and their edition history ...) they told me they use git. However at: ~ http://git-scm.com/documentation ~ I could not find specific information on what diff'ing algorithm does git use. Any white papers about git internals, mostly about its diff'ing and synching algorithm? (and I am not scared at all of "Directed Acyclic Graph" or any kind of Math terminology; in fact, I love it ;-)) ~ Also, of the wave of git related or general books coming out, which one actually explains the general concepts behind distributed version Control? Again, my ultimate interest is not computer programming/compiler-fed languages, but there is much that can be learned from them ~ Thank you lbrtchx