Merge branch 'jk/diff-compact-heuristic'

Patch output from "git diff" and friends has been tweaked to be
more readable by using a blank line as a strong hint that the
contents before and after it belong to a logically separate unit.

* jk/diff-compact-heuristic:
  diff: undocument the compaction heuristic knobs for experimentation
  xdiff: implement empty line chunk heuristic
  xdiff: add recs_match helper function

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 4dfe6609d0..d3734d3181 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #endif
 
 static int diff_detect_rename_default;
+static int diff_compaction_heuristic = 1;
 static int diff_rename_limit_default = 400;
 static int diff_suppress_blank_empty;
 static int diff_use_color_default = -1;
@@ -189,6 +190,10 @@ int git_diff_ui_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 		diff_detect_rename_default = git_config_rename(var, value);
 		return 0;
 	}
+	if (!strcmp(var, "diff.compactionheuristic")) {
+		diff_compaction_heuristic = git_config_bool(var, value);
+		return 0;
+	}
 	if (!strcmp(var, "diff.autorefreshindex")) {
 		diff_auto_refresh_index = git_config_bool(var, value);
 		return 0;
@@ -3278,6 +3283,8 @@ void diff_setup(struct diff_options *options)
 	options->use_color = diff_use_color_default;
 	options->detect_rename = diff_detect_rename_default;
 	options->xdl_opts |= diff_algorithm;
+	if (diff_compaction_heuristic)
+		DIFF_XDL_SET(options, COMPACTION_HEURISTIC);
 
 	options->orderfile = diff_order_file_cfg;
 
@@ -3798,6 +3805,10 @@ int diff_opt_parse(struct diff_options *options,
 		DIFF_XDL_SET(options, IGNORE_WHITESPACE_AT_EOL);
 	else if (!strcmp(arg, "--ignore-blank-lines"))
 		DIFF_XDL_SET(options, IGNORE_BLANK_LINES);
+	else if (!strcmp(arg, "--compaction-heuristic"))
+		DIFF_XDL_SET(options, COMPACTION_HEURISTIC);
+	else if (!strcmp(arg, "--no-compaction-heuristic"))
+		DIFF_XDL_CLR(options, COMPACTION_HEURISTIC);
 	else if (!strcmp(arg, "--patience"))
 		options->xdl_opts = DIFF_WITH_ALG(options, PATIENCE_DIFF);
 	else if (!strcmp(arg, "--histogram"))