Re: finding similar blobs (was: Re: $Revision$ keyword replacement?

From: Santi Bejar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 22, 2005, 23:10 UTC
Message-ID: <8aa486160511221510v667dbfd5y@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vy83gb8zk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

2005/11/22, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>:

> Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com> writes:
>

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> > tmp=`mktemp -t -d git-find-sim.XXXXXXX`
> > ...
> > git update-index --add $file || exit 1
> > tree=`git-write-tree`
>
> Are you going through all this trouble just to avoid a blob and
> a tree object left dangling after you are done?  Or is there
> something else going on?

No, there is nothing else. These are "easy" avoided, so why have these dangling {blob,tree,...}s?

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> > rev_arg=`GIT_DIR=$GIT_DIR_ORIG git-rev-parse --default HEAD --revs-only "$@"`
> > revs=`GIT_DIR=$GIT_DIR_ORIG git-rev-list $rev_arg`
> > for i in $revs; do
> >     git diff-tree --name-status $i -C $tree | grep $file |
> >     sed "s/^/$i:/"
> > done
>
> Perhaps
>
>         GIT_DIR=$GIT_DIR_ORIG git-rev-list $rev_arg |
>         while read one
>             git diff-tree --name-status -r $one -C $tree | grep $file |
>             sed "s/^/$one:/"
>         done
>
> just in case the similar file you will discover is hidden in a
> subdirectory?

Oops :)

Santi