Re: [PATCH v3 17/20] range-diff: add a man page
From: Eric Sunshine <hidden>
Date: 2018-07-16 08:01:16
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 7:27 AM Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget [off-list ref] wrote:
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The bulk of this patch consists of a heavily butchered version of tbdiff's README written by Thomas Rast and Thomas Gummerer, lifted from https://github.com/trast/tbdiff. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <redacted> ---diff --git a/Documentation/git-range-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-range-diff.txt@@ -0,0 +1,235 @@ +To that end, it first finds pairs of commits from both commit ranges +that correspond with each other. Two commits are said to correspond when +the diff between their patches (i.e. the author information, the commit +message and the commit diff) is reasonably small compared to the +patches' size. See ``Algorithm` below for details.
Unbalanced number of backticks on "Algorithm".
+Finally, the list of matching commits is shown in the order of the +second commit range, with unmatched commits being inserted just after +all of their ancestors have been shown.