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    xdiff: add xdl_merge() · 857b933e
    Johannes Schindelin authored
    
    
    This new function implements the functionality of RCS merge, but
    in-memory. It returns < 0 on error, otherwise the number of conflicts.
    
    Finding the conflicting lines can be a very expensive task. You can
    control the eagerness of this algorithm:
    
    - a level value of 0 means that all overlapping changes are treated
      as conflicts,
    - a value of 1 means that if the overlapping changes are identical,
      it is not treated as a conflict.
    - If you set level to 2, overlapping changes will be analyzed, so that
      almost identical changes will not result in huge conflicts. Rather,
      only the conflicting lines will be shown inside conflict markers.
    
    With each increasing level, the algorithm gets slower, but more accurate.
    Note that the code for level 2 depends on the simple definition of
    mmfile_t specific to git, and therefore it will be harder to port that
    to LibXDiff.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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