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Re: [bug-diffutils] time complexity of diff3
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [bug-diffutils] time complexity of diff3 |
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Tue, 29 May 2012 08:40:24 -0700 |
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On 05/29/2012 01:32 AM, Tim Roes wrote:
> The man page of diff3 states out that it is written by Randy Smith. In the
> repository
> there is none commit by a person with that name, but you commited quite much.
> Did you commit some work for him?
Randy Smith wrote the original version.
I never committed his work (David MacKenzie did that).
Although a lot of the code is my work now, I haven't
changed the fundamental algorithm and have not bothered
to add myself to the AUTHORS variable.