From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:13:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Bypass expensive content comparsion during rename detection
Message-ID: <20061214121336.GN1747@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <200612141126.kBEBQme7021704@hera.kernel.org>

Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> wrote:
> estimate_similarity() is called after it has determined that one
> and two do not match exactly, and it relies on populate_filespec
> with at least size-only has been called on them so that it can
> reject filepair with vastly different sizes, still without
> looking at (thus without loading) the contents.

*ouch* That hurts.  OK, it makes a lot of sense, but its crazy.
About as crazy as the comment I put in my revised patch...  ;-)

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