On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 09:20:46AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote:
I didn't expect that 'diff' could generate so many lines of changes :-)
It is not about the number of changed lines - it is about *what* gets changed.
A single character change can invalidate the tags of a patch and a huge diffstat solely cleaning up whitespace will not, even though we prefer if those get done in a separate patch to ease review.
I'm sure you can think of examples.