From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:31:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] blame: Rename detection (take 2)
Message-ID: <7vzmjrdybo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060310092141.24015.42482.stgit@c165>

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.