Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] teach --histogram to diff

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Have you looked at a patch that differs in output between Myers and
patience, and then compared those to the histogram version?

$ git log -p v1.6.6..v1.7.6 | git patch-id >/var/tmp/md
$ git log --histogram -p v1.6.6..v1.7.6 | git patch-id >/var/tmp/hd
$ diff -u0 /var/tmp/md /var/tmp/hd |
 sed -ne '/^+/s/^+[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]* //p' |
 while read commit
 do
       git show "$commit" >/var/tmp/1
       git show --histogram "$commit" >/var/tmp/2
       interdiff /var/tmp/1 /var/tmp/2
 done

Thanks for taking the time to run this.

shows there is one that gives vastly different appearance, but it all
boils down to which lines to take as common, and for this particular
example neither is more readable over the other (9560808f2ef5a34d2a).

Running the above "show" with larger -U$n value shows there don't seem to
be any discrepancies between the two.

I suspect it's due to that change being mostly a lot of additions on
the right side, without much deletions on the left.

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan