> > While we're on the subject of 'diff wish', my wish is that diff3 could
> > remove lines from the top and bottom of a conflict region that are the
> > same on both "sides". Whether this happens as a natural part of the
> > implementation, or in a post-processing step, I don't care so much.
> > But at present, Subversion frequently gives me a conflict region that
> > includes a lot of identical text above and below the actual conflict.
[Johan Corveleyn]
> Ah, but if I'm not mistaken that's just the kind of improvement that
> was suggested by Morten in the recent thread "Improvements to diff3
> (merge) performance" [1].
His situation is similar, but he went further. He's talking about
cases where the conflict can be eliminated entirely. Of course that is
risky - it can be hard to know programmatically when something truly
should not be flagged as a conflict.
What I want is much simpler. Given a conflict region, make it smaller
by removing lines from the top and bottom that do not actually differ.
Don't eliminate the conflict entirely. My "proposal" does not lose any
information; by reducing the size of the conflict region, it makes it
easier to see what the actual difference is. And as I said, even if
what I want does not happen naturally in a diff3 algorithm, it can be
done as a post-processing step.
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Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/
Received on 2011-06-16 19:24:11 CEST