D3212: patch: implement a new worddiff algorithm

[yuja (Yuya Nishihara)]

yuja added a comment.


  > That said, I'm fine with changing the defaults to whatever. So feel
  >  free to send follow-ups changing it.
  
  Can you split a patch changing the color scheme so we can easily
  back it out as needed?

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> quark wrote in patch.py:2536
> For a split list `['\n', '\t', ' ']`, mdiff might return a hunk that joins them. So `''.join(al[a1:a2])` will become more complex.
> 
> I think having mdiff step free from EOL/tab handling makes the code easier to read.

Ah, got it. Let's leave mdiff refactoring until later, then.

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REVISION DETAIL
  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3212

To: quark, #hg-reviewers, durin42, yuja
Cc: indygreg, dhduvall, yuja, spectral, mercurial-devel