merge-recursive --patience

Teach the merge-recursive strategy a --patience option to use the
"patience diff" algorithm, which tends to improve results when
cherry-picking a patch that reorders functions at the same time as
refactoring them.

To support this, struct merge_options and ll_merge_options gain an
xdl_opts member, so programs can use arbitrary xdiff flags (think
"XDF_IGNORE_WHITESPACE") in a git-aware merge.

git merge and git rebase can be passed the -Xpatience option to
use this.

[jn: split from --ignore-space patch; with documentation]

Signed-off-by: Justin Frankel <justin@cockos.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Justin Frankel
2010-08-26 00:50:45 -05:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 712516bcac
commit 58a1ece478
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@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ struct ll_merge_options {
unsigned virtual_ancestor : 1;
unsigned variant : 2; /* favor ours, favor theirs, or union merge */
unsigned renormalize : 1;
long xdl_opts;
};
int ll_merge(mmbuffer_t *result_buf,