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xdiff: remove patience and histogram diff algorithms
Patience diff is the normal diff algorithm, plus some greediness that
unconditionally matches common common unique lines. That means it is easy to
construct cases to let it generate suboptimal result, like:
```
open('a', 'w').write('\n'.join(list('a' + 'x' * 300 + 'u' + 'x' * 700 + 'a\n')))
open('b', 'w').write('\n'.join(list('b' + 'x' * 700 + 'u' + 'x' * 300 + 'b\n')))
```
Patience diff has been advertised as being able to generate better results for
some C code changes. However, the more scientific way to do that is the
indention heuristic [1].
Since patience diff could generate suboptimal result more easily and its
"better" diff feature could be replaced by the new indention heuristic, let's
just remove it and its variant histogram diff to simplify the code.
[1]: https://github.com/git/git/commit/433860f3d0beb0c6f205290bd16cda413148f098
Test Plan:
`gcc -fPIC *.c --shared -o xdiff.so` still builds.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2573
author | Jun Wu <quark@fb.com> |
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date | Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:39:55 -0800 |
parents | bfc9ab6c1bec |
children | bf953d218a91 |
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$ cat > writepatterns.py <<EOF > import sys > > path = sys.argv[1] > patterns = sys.argv[2:] > > fp = open(path, 'wb') > for pattern in patterns: > count = int(pattern[0:-1]) > char = pattern[-1] + '\n' > fp.write(char*count) > fp.close() > EOF prepare repo $ hg init a $ cd a These initial lines of Xs were not in the original file used to generate the patch. So all the patch hunks need to be applied to a constant offset within this file. If the offset isn't tracked then the hunks can be applied to the wrong lines of this file. $ $PYTHON ../writepatterns.py a 34X 10A 1B 10A 1C 10A 1B 10A 1D 10A 1B 10A 1E 10A 1B 10A $ hg commit -Am adda adding a This is a cleaner patch generated via diff In this case it reproduces the problem when the output of hg export does not import patch $ hg import -v -m 'b' -d '2 0' - <<EOF > --- a/a 2009-12-08 19:26:17.000000000 -0800 > +++ b/a 2009-12-08 19:26:17.000000000 -0800 > @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ > A > A > B > -A > +a > A > A > A > @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ > A > A > B > -A > +a > A > A > A > @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ > A > A > B > -A > +a > A > A > A > EOF applying patch from stdin patching file a Hunk #1 succeeded at 43 (offset 34 lines). Hunk #2 succeeded at 87 (offset 34 lines). Hunk #3 succeeded at 109 (offset 34 lines). committing files: a committing manifest committing changelog created 189885cecb41 compare imported changes against reference file $ $PYTHON ../writepatterns.py aref 34X 10A 1B 1a 9A 1C 10A 1B 10A 1D 10A 1B 1a 9A 1E 10A 1B 1a 9A $ diff aref a $ cd ..