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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 01:16:18 +0200
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 11:30 PM, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 10:59:26PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>> One of the issues here is that patch series don't have fixed boundaries over
>> their lifetime, the same way patches don't. A patch can evolve in scope from
>> version to version, and similarly so can a patch series. It's not uncommon for
>> patches to be dropped or added and for series to be split or merged. I've in
>> the past incorporated part of an RFC patch series in the v1 of a series with a
>> larger scope (after discussing it with the original developer of course).
>
> I do have some tools and algorithms that could be adapted to help
> cross-match patch series and show how they evolve over time. It isn't
> that hard to detect patch reordering and show interdiffs between
> corresponding patches. Extending that to match patches between series
> isn't much harder.

Is that built on top of the new git range-diff tool, or at least that
concept? Or something else?
-Daniel
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