From 92b7de93fb7801570ddc3195f03f30b9c201a3bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:04:09 +0100
Subject: Implement the patience diff algorithm

The patience diff algorithm produces slightly more intuitive output
than the classic Myers algorithm, as it does not try to minimize the
number of +/- lines first, but tries to preserve the lines that are
unique.

To this end, it first determines lines that are unique in both files,
then the maximal sequence which preserves the order (relative to both
files) is extracted.

Starting from this initial set of common lines, the rest of the lines
is handled recursively, with Myers' algorithm as a fallback when
the patience algorithm fails (due to no common unique lines).

This patch includes memory leak fixes by Pierre Habouzit.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 xdiff/xdiffi.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

(limited to 'xdiff/xdiffi.h')

diff --git a/xdiff/xdiffi.h b/xdiff/xdiffi.h
index 3e099dc445..ad033a8e6a 100644
--- a/xdiff/xdiffi.h
+++ b/xdiff/xdiffi.h
@@ -55,5 +55,7 @@ int xdl_build_script(xdfenv_t *xe, xdchange_t **xscr);
 void xdl_free_script(xdchange_t *xscr);
 int xdl_emit_diff(xdfenv_t *xe, xdchange_t *xscr, xdemitcb_t *ecb,
 		  xdemitconf_t const *xecfg);
+int xdl_do_patience_diff(mmfile_t *mf1, mmfile_t *mf2, xpparam_t const *xpp,
+		xdfenv_t *env);
 
 #endif /* #if !defined(XDIFFI_H) */
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