Merge branch 'jk/diff-compact-heuristic'

Merge branch 'jk/diff-compact-heuristic'

Patch output from "git diff" and friends has been tweaked to be
more readable by using a blank line as a strong hint that the
contents before and after it belong to a logically separate unit.

* jk/diff-compact-heuristic:
  diff: undocument the compaction heuristic knobs for experimentation
  xdiff: implement empty line chunk heuristic
  xdiff: add recs_match helper function