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Re: [PATCH 3/3] blame: Rename detection (take 2)

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Mar 16, 2006, 00:31 UTC
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<7vzmjrdybo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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Very nice. It even works with that "insanely fast rename detector" by Linus ;-)

An example, from an early part of "git blame git-format-patch.sh":

0acfc972 git-format-patch-script (Junio C Hamano 2005-07-05 13:19:05 -0700 0acfc972 git-format-patch-script (Junio C Hamano 2005-07-05 13:19:05 -0700 0acfc972 git-format-patch-script (Junio C Hamano 2005-07-05 13:19:05 -0700 19bb7327 git-format-patch.sh (Mike McCormack 2006-03-06 22:12:12 +0900 6) 66f04f38 git-format-patch.sh (Andreas Ericsso 2006-02-07 09:37:54 +0000 7) 66f04f38 git-format-patch.sh (Andreas Ericsso 2006-02-07 09:37:54 +0000 8) 66f04f38 git-format-patch.sh (Andreas Ericsso 2006-02-07 09:37:54 +0000 9) 66f04f38 git-format-patch.sh (Andreas Ericsso 2006-02-07 09:37:54 +0000 10)

However, I think this underlines that chopping people's names to the first 15 bytes (or any length for that matter) does not buy you much.

Previous: Fredrik Kuivinen
Message 5 of 5 in “Teach git-blame about renames (take 2)”
  1. 0/3 Teach git-blame about renames (take 2)Fredrik Kuivinen, Mar 10, 2006
  2. 1/3 Make it possible to not clobber object.util in sort_in_topological_order (take 2)Fredrik Kuivinen, Mar 10, 2006
  3. 2/3 rev-lib: Make it easy to do rename tracking (take 2)Fredrik Kuivinen, Mar 10, 2006
  4. 3/3 blame: Rename detection (take 2)Fredrik Kuivinen, Mar 10, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 16, 2006

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