Re: Lines missing from git diff-tree -p -c output?

Matthijs Kooijman [off-list ref] writes:

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Could you explain why you think it hides the real problem, and what
kind of future enhancement may break it?

I think the differences is mostly in the locality of the fix. In my
proposed patch, the no_pre_delete flag is never set on an interesting
line because it is checked in the line before it. In your patch, it
never happens because the control flow guarantees the "context" lines
before each change must be uninteresting.

The net effect is of course identical, but I'm arguing that depending on
the control flow and some code a doze lines down is easier to break than
depending on a previous line.

Yeah, that sounds like a reasonable reasoning.