Re: JGIT: discuss: diff/patch implementation

Le Monday 10 November 2008 20:46:02 Johannes Schindelin, vous avez écrit :

Hi,

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Francis Galiegue wrote:

quoted

A very nice git feature, without even going as far as merges, is the
cherry pick feature.

For this to be doable from within the Eclipse Git plugin, a diff/patch
implementation needs to be found, in a license compatible with the
current JGit license (3-clause BSD, as far as I can tell). Or a new
implementation can be rewritten from scratch, of course.

Do not forget creating efficient packs.  They also need an efficient diff
engine.

I wasn't even thinking about this, honestly :p

Let's say that as far as IDE users are concerned, they do have disk space, and 
having the ability to cherry-pick is more of a priority than packs ;) Even a 
less efficient but "to the point" engine will be good enough for the time 
being, or at least, this is what I think.

I understand way too little about the algorithm myself to tell whether it's 
also efficient for such a purpose. Maybe it is...

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fge