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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Cc: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,  "brian m. carlson"
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Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:

>> But I think that there is a slightly cleaner way to compute the result
>> you're after, like so:
>> ...
> So, your method and my original one give exactly the same result.
> Therefore, I can't see what their fundamental difference is.

I think Taylor offered a "slightly cleaner way", and not a
"different way that computes better result".  So it is not
surprising, at least to me who is watching from the sideline, that
you cannot see any fundamental difference.