[wp-hackers] Switching from SVN

[Mike Schinkel]

On Dec 10, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Otto wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Mike Schinkel
> <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net> wrote:
>> Question: what happens if the line numbers change?  I've seen a lot of cases where the latest function is identical but other code in the same file has changed.
> 
> The original GNU patch had a fairly primitive fuzzy matching system.
> Modern implementations tend to use smarter algorithms to better detect
> where and how to make a patch from a diff. They're fairly far from
> perfect, but all of them can generally handle line numbers being
> wrong. That's why diff's include context around changes as well, to
> provide the unchanged lines to look for and such.

Cool!   Thanks.

I'll second Travis' comment, this thread has been great.

-Mike