I've talked about this quite a bit on the list already. The idea is to
improve ugly diffs like
@@ -231,6 +231,9 @@ if (!defined $initial_reply_to && $prompting) {
}
if (!$smtp_server) {
+ $smtp_server = $repo->config('sendemail.smtpserver');
+}
+if (!$smtp_server) {
foreach (qw( /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail )) {
if (-x $_) {
$smtp_server = $_;
by feeding clues from the surrounding lines (namely their patterns of
indentation and blank lines) into a heuristic that more often produces
the diffs that users would rather see, like
--- a/9c572b21dd090a1e5c5bb397053bf8043ffe7fb4:git-send-email.perl
+++ b/6dcfa306f2b67b733a7eb2d7ded1bc9987809edb:git-send-email.perl
@@ -230,6 +230,9 @@ if (!defined $initial_reply_to && $prompting) {
$initial_reply_to =~ s/(^\s+|\s+$)//g;
}
+if (!$smtp_server) {
+ $smtp_server = $repo->config('sendemail.smtpserver');
+}
if (!$smtp_server) {
foreach (qw( /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail )) {
if (-x $_) {
See the last commit's log message for a very detailed explanation of
the heuristic, how it was optimized, and how you can get involved to
make sure that the heuristic also works well for your favorite
language.
When tested against a corpus of 2700 diffs that I optimized by hand,
this heuristic gets a "wrong" answer only about 1.7% as frequently as
the current default Git algorithm and only about 5.3% as often as `git
diff --compaction-heuristic`. (Though please don't treat these numbers
as final; I want to verify them again first.)
For now the new algorithm has to be enabled explicitly using either
`--indent-heuristic` or `git config diff.indentheuristic true`.
Michael Haggerty (8):
xdl_change_compact(): rename some local variables for clarity
xdl_change_compact(): clarify code
xdl_change_compact(): rename i to end
xdl_change_compact(): do one final shift or the other, not both
xdl_change_compact(): fix compaction heuristic to adjust io
xdl_change_compact(): keep track of the earliest end
is_blank_line: take a single xrecord_t as argument
diff: improve positioning of add/delete blocks in diffs
Documentation/diff-options.txt | 6 +-
diff.c | 11 +
git-add--interactive.perl | 5 +-
xdiff/xdiff.h | 1 +
xdiff/xdiffi.c | 458 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
5 files changed, 409 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)
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2.8.1
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