linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] gpio: fixes for v6.6-rc7

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Message-ID: <CAMRc=MezGuMdd=H_vdSmdm++YDm59gB6TK2HbqDQypqDOSjj8A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 22 Oct 2023 20:43:00 +0200
From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] gpio: fixes for v6.6-rc7

On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 4:32 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 at 06:12, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:
> >
> > I have diff.algorithm = patience in my gitconfig. Typically this
> > results in better diffs but not this time for some reason.
>
> Yeah, that picks a really odd diff in this case.
>
> May I actually suggest the 'histogram' diff algorithm to you? It's
> kind of a "smarter patience" version, and at least for me it's been
> the best of the choices.
>
> Of course, there's always going to be some odd case where for one
> reason or another one of the diff algorithms does better than the
> others, but histogram does seem to result in good diffs most of the
> time.
>

Sure, I'll use it from now on.

Thanks,
Bartosz