[Toybox] New diff.c

[enh]

btw, did you see Nugroho, Y.S., Hata, H. & Matsumoto, K. How different are
different *diff* algorithms in Git?. *Empir Software Eng* 25, 790–823
(2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09772-z

link to the article on the web:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-019-09772-z

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 8:17 AM enh <enh at google.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 1:35 AM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
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>> On 8/8/22 10:30, enh wrote:
>> >> Anyway, the attached is still buggy and incomplete, but it gives the
>> general
>> >> idea. If this ACTUALLY pending code this would be at least my third
>> checkin of
>> >> the new plumbing, but since people are building and using stuff out of
>> pending I
>> >> can't replace it until the new stuff fully works, which means you
>> don't get to
>> >> see all the development history. So here's a checkpoint since I've
>> been kinda
>> >> quiet otherwise. :)
>> >
>> > no history is always a mistake that ends up being regretted...
>>
>> I know. That's why I posted a working checkpoint to the list.
>>
>> > just
>> > check in as diff2, ndiff (new), tdiff (toybox), rdiff (rob) and then
>> > rename or delete when you make your final decision?
>>
>> Except every time I've tried that the new one winds up getting abandoned,
>> for
>> reasons vaguely related to https://xkcd.com/927/ .
>>
>
> ah, you're worried that people will start to depend on it, and any bugs it
> might have?
>
> you could always have a non-master branch?
>
>
>> > seems like the best of all worlds?
>>
>> Right now I'm trying to work out which near term todo items should go in
>> this
>> release. I've already held it a couple days past the 3 month schedule,
>> and what
>> I should probably just do is cut a checkpoint release and then get
>> everything
>> checked in for next time, but there's still low-hanging fruit. (That I've
>> mostly
>> not been working on because I've had the bit caught in my teeth on the
>> diff
>> redesign...)
>>
>> Rob
>>
>
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