On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 11:13:27AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 10:57:26AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 05:32:28PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 02:50:24PM +0100, Tom Jones wrote:
> > > > Working from diff_output_edscript add support for classic diff output.
> > > > The main differences between these two formats is the header
> > > > construction for a hunk and selection around which lines that are
> > > > output.
> > > 
> > > This is nice, thank you. I have committed it.
> > > 
> > > There is currently no way to enable plain mode when running a compiled
> > > diff binary from diff/diff.c. I briefly hacked my local copy to run
> > > your code and tested it. It would be nice if this output mode was
> > > reachable from the CLI so it could be tested by scripts.
> > 
> > As a follow-up fix, consider the following patch.
> > We must update the line offsets array whenever we generate a line
> > of diff output. Otherwise, tools like tog would have to process
> > the entire diff output again in order to figure out where the
> > line-breaks occur. For large diffs which are many mega-bytes
> > in size, this can be a huge performance hit.
> > 
> > ok?
> 

Looks good to me

- Tom