From: Elliot Wolk Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:05:46 GMT Subject: Re: move detection doesnt take filename into account Message-ID: <53B2CE4A.9060509@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: thanks for the info! then i suppose my bug is a petition to have name similarity instead use a different statistical matching algorithm. On 07/01/2014 10:57 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Robin Rosenberg writes: > >> I think it does, but based on filename suffix. E.g. here is a rename of >> three empty files with a suffix. >> >> 3 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >> rename 1.a => 2.a (100%) >> rename 1.b => 2.b (100%) >> rename 1.c => 2.c (100%) > This is not more than a chance. > > We tie-break rename source candidates that have the same content > similarity score to a rename destination using "name similarity", > whose implementation has been diffcore-rename.c::basename_same(), > which scores 1 if `basename $src` and `basename $dst` are the same > and 0 otherwise, i.e. from 1.a to a/1.a is judged to be a better > rename than from 1.a to a/2.a but otherwise there is nothing that > favors rename from 1.a to 2.a over 1.a to 2.b.