From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 18:46:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Detect renames in diff family.
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).