From: Ryan Anderson Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 06:35:13 GMT Subject: Re: Comments on recursive merge.. Message-ID: <43758D21.3060107@michonline.com> In-Reply-To: <7v4q6ilt3m.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano wrote: > Linus Torvalds writes: > > >>>Another thing to consider is if it is fast enough for everyday >>>trivial merges. >> >>Hmm. True. The _really_ trivial in-index case triggers for me pretty >>often, but I haven't done any statistics. It might be only 50% of the >>time. > > > Just for fun, I randomly picked two heads/master commits from > linux-2.6 repository (one was when I happened to have pulled the > last time, and the other was when I thought this might be an > interesting exercise and pulled again), and fed the commits > between the two to a little script that looks at commits and > tries to stat what they did (the script ignores renames so they > appear as deletes and adds). Mind sharing the script? It'be nice to know if these stats are typical, or unusual when you get numbers from a variety of other trees.