On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Jacob Keller <jacob.kel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 12:11 AM, KES <kes-...@yandex.ru> wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> I have some question about how diff works then give proposal:
>>>
>>> it will be very useful for each "symbol" store additional meta info as
>>> source line length. So in this case when git counter two equal sequence of
>>> commands it will do further comparison: Adds 23 chars deletes none VS adds
>>> 75 chars deletes 46
>>>
>>> Actually I got this:
>>>
>>> @@ -129,8 +132,9 @@ sub _preprocess_message {
>>> sub _process_message {
>>> my ($self, $message) = @_;
>>>
>>> - my $method = ref($message) eq 'HASH' ? $message->{method} : undef;
>>> + my $time = [ gettimeofday ];
>>>
>>> + my $method = ref($message) eq 'HASH' ? $message->{method} : undef;
>>> return $self->send_error(ERROR_REQUEST_INVALID)
>>> unless defined($method);
>>>
>>> Instead of expected:
>>> @@ -129,6 +132,8 @@ sub _preprocess_message {
>>> sub _process_message {
>>> my ($self, $message) = @_;
>>>
>>> + my $time = [ gettimeofday ];
>>> +
>>> my $method = ref($message) eq 'HASH' ? $message->{method} : undef;
>>> -
>>> return $self->send_error(ERROR_REQUEST_INVALID)
>>>
>>
>> Have you tried the various options for git to search for smaller
>> diffs? Or using the other diff algorithms such as histogram instead of
>> patience?
>>
>
> The newest version of Git comes with a flag to move around the diff
> better, based on the work at https://github.com/mhagger/diff-slider-tools
Unfortunately in this case, I'm not convinced that it will improve the
diff. It's worth a try as well though.
Thanks,
Jake
