Re: [PATCH] Detect renames in diff family.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 19, 2005, 18:46 UTC
Message-ID: <7vsm0jyryf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0505191426000.20274@localhost.localdomain>

>>>>> "NP" == Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

NP> On Thu, 19 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>> - the command line interface "-M" to read "-M" or "-M[0-9]"
>> (one digit); -M defaults to -M5 and give the cut-off point at
>> similarity score 5000, -M9 at 9000, etc.

NP> Why not a fractional value instead? -M1 is 100% the same while -M.95 NP> allows for some 5% changes.

We are essentially saying the same thing. Internally diff core uses score between 0 and 10000 but single digit proposed above or fractional both hides that from the user by normalizing the scale to something less arbitrary (in my case 0-9 in your case 0-1.0).

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.