From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:41:34 GMT
Subject: Re: comparing file contents in is_exact_match?
Message-ID: <20060706074134.GC12512@admingilde.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vwtar89wy.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 12:33:33AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> writes:
> > so perhaps we need three phases instead of two:
> > first sort out all renames that can be detected by the sha1,
> > then compare file contents and finally do the diff.
> 
> Makes sort-of sense.
> 
> Although I am not sure how much this would help with a regular
> workload, maybe something like this untested patch might help
> your situation?

patch looks good, I'll try it in the evening.

-- 
Martin Waitz