[PATCH v3 0/8] Better heuristics make prettier diffs

[Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>]

This is v3 of the diff-indent-heuristic patch series. Thanks to René,
Junio, and Ramsay for their comments about v2 [1,2].

The heuristic itself hasn't changed since v2. Most of the changes are
in the tests and in how `git blame` is wired up to support the new
options. Changes since v1:

* In "diff: improve positioning of add/delete blocks in diffs":

  * Make `score_cmp()` static.

  * Add test t4059 as part of this commit, not as part of its
    successor.

  * t4059: Create commits to use for the tests (rather than diffing
    loose files with `--no-cache`), so that the same prep can be used
    to test `git blame`. Split the tests into multiple smaller tests.

  * Add a test that `--no-indent-heuristic` overrides the config.

* Add a new commit "parse-options: add parse_opt_unknown_cb()":

  * Allow "-h" help text to be generated for options even if they are
    being handled by code external to `parse_options()`.

  If there's already a way to do this, I didn't find it.

* In "blame: honor the diff heuristic options and config":

  * In v2, I suggested making `blame` honor all diff-related options.
    Junio explained why this was a bad idea. So this version only
    makes `blame` honor `--indent-heuristic` and
    `--compaction-heuristic`.

  * Add some smoke tests.

This patch series is also available from my GitHub fork [3], branch
"diff-indent-heuristic"

[1] http://public-inbox.org/git/cover.1471864378.git.mhagger@alum.mit.edu/
[2] http://public-inbox.org/git/a27aa17e-f602-fc49-92b3-2198e4772e47@ramsayjones.plus.com/
[3] https://github.com/mhagger/git

Michael Haggerty (8):
  xdl_change_compact(): fix compaction heuristic to adjust ixo
  xdl_change_compact(): only use heuristic if group can't be matched
  is_blank_line(): take a single xrecord_t as argument
  recs_match(): take two xrecord_t pointers as arguments
  xdl_change_compact(): introduce the concept of a change group
  diff: improve positioning of add/delete blocks in diffs
  parse-options: add parse_opt_unknown_cb()
  blame: honor the diff heuristic options and config

 Documentation/diff-config.txt            |   7 +-
 Documentation/diff-heuristic-options.txt |   7 +
 Documentation/diff-options.txt           |   7 +-
 Documentation/git-annotate.txt           |   1 +
 Documentation/git-blame.txt              |   2 +
 builtin/blame.c                          |  12 +
 diff.c                                   |  36 +-
 diff.h                                   |   1 +
 git-add--interactive.perl                |   5 +-
 parse-options-cb.c                       |  12 +
 parse-options.h                          |   1 +
 t/t4059-diff-indent.sh                   | 216 +++++++++++
 xdiff/xdiff.h                            |   1 +
 xdiff/xdiffi.c                           | 635 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 14 files changed, 828 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/diff-heuristic-options.txt
 create mode 100755 t/t4059-diff-indent.sh

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