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The cleanup_records function marks some lines as changed before running the actual diff algorithm. For most lines, this is a good performance optimization, but it also marks lines that are surrounded by many changed lines as changed as well. This can cause redundant changes and longer-than-necessary diffs. Whether this results in better-looking diffs is subjective. However, the --minimal flag explicitly requests the shortest possible diff. The change results in shorter diffs in about 1.3% of all diffs in Git's history. Performance wise, I have measured the impact on "git log -p -3000 --minimal > /dev/null". With this change, I get Time (mean ± σ): 2.363 s ± 0.023 s (25 runs) and without this patch I measured Time (mean ± σ): 2.362 s ± 0.035 s (25 runs). As the difference is well within the margin of error, this does not seem to have an impact on performance. Signed-off-by: Niels Glodny <n.glodny@campus.lmu.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> |
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| xdiff.h | ||
| xdiffi.c | ||
| xdiffi.h | ||
| xemit.c | ||
| xemit.h | ||
| xhistogram.c | ||
| xinclude.h | ||
| xmacros.h | ||
| xmerge.c | ||
| xpatience.c | ||
| xprepare.c | ||
| xprepare.h | ||
| xtypes.h | ||
| xutils.c | ||
| xutils.h | ||