From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:23:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle
Message-ID: <20061020202318.GJ20017@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610201045550.3962@g5.osdl.org>

Dear diary, on Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 07:48:58PM CEST, I got a letter
where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said that...
> So yeah, I've seen a few strange cases myself, but they've actually been 
> interesting. Like seeing how much of a file was just a copyright license, 
> and then a file being considered a "copy" just because it didn't actually 
> introduce any real new code.

Well it's certainly "interesting" and fun to see, but is it equally fun
to handle mismerges caused by a broken detection?

I've talked to some people who really didn't mind (or even liked) Git's
heuristics when it came to _inspecting_ movement of content, but were
really nervous about merge following such heuristics.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
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