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From: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] combine-diff: coalesce lost lines optimally
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:37:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALWbr2yfgA8kvtn4yxzPD5cencAPmwMqx=A6n4ohsjdzfAE1bQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vhak9rdne.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hopefully, my patch takes about the same time as git 1.7.9.5 and
produces the same output on that commit ;)
Unfortunately on a commit that would remove A LOT of lines (10000)
from 7 parents, the times goes from 0.01s to 1.5s... I'm pretty sure
that scenario is quite uncommon though.

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This replaces the greedy implementation to coalesce lost lines by using
>> dynamic programming to find the Longest Common Subsequence.
>>
>> The O(n²) time complexity is obviously bigger than previous
>> implementation but it can produce shorter diff results (and most likely
>> easier to read).
>>
>> List of lost lines is now doubly-linked because we reverse-read it when
>> reading the direction matrix.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> Hi,
>> This is a very first draft for improving the way we coalesce lost
>> lines. It has only been tested with the two scenarios below.
>>
>> What is left to do:
>> - Test it more extensively
>> - Had some tests scenarios
>>
>> I'm also having a hard time trying it with more than two parents. How I
>> am supposed to have more than two parents while octopus merge refuses if
>> there are conflicts ?
>
> 9fdb62af92c7 ([ACPI] merge 3549 4320 4485 4588 4980 5483 5651 acpica
> asus fops pnpacpi branches into release, 2006-01-24) is one of the
> amusing examples ;-)  Cf.
>
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/15486

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-17 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-14 22:32 [RFD] Combine diff improvements Antoine Pelisse
2013-03-14 22:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-15  5:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-17 13:03   ` [PATCH] combine-diff: coalesce lost lines optimally Antoine Pelisse
2013-03-17 13:58     ` Antoine Pelisse
2013-03-17 20:10     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-17 20:37       ` Antoine Pelisse [this message]
2013-03-17 22:37     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-23 17:23       ` [PATCH v2] " Antoine Pelisse

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