From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Teach Git about the patience diff algorithm Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 11:45:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <20081104004001.GB29458@artemis.corp> <20081104083042.GB3788@artemis.corp> <20081104152351.GA21842@artemis.corp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Pierre Habouzit , davidel@xmailserver.org, Francis Galiegue , Git ML To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 01 20:47:05 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LITVX-0003h6-Vk for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:47:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751335AbZAATpm (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:45:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751245AbZAATpm (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:45:42 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:52012 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751241AbZAATpl (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:45:41 -0500 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n01JjNwd030011 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 1 Jan 2009 11:45:24 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n01JjLco027889; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 11:45:22 -0800 X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.924 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Nothing fancy, really, just a straight-forward implementation of the > heavily under-documented and under-analyzed paience diff algorithm. Exactly because the patience diff is so under-documented, could you perhaps give a few examples of how it differs in the result, and why it's so wonderful? Yes, yes, I can google, and no, no, nothing useful shows up except for *totally* content-free fanboisms. So could we have some actual real data on it? Linus