From: C. Scott Ananian Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:31:54 GMT Subject: Re: Merge with git-pasky II. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1113580881.27227.73.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, David Woodhouse wrote: > given piece of content. Also because we actually have the developer's > attention at commit time, and we can get _real_ answers from the user > about what she was doing, instead of having to guess. Yes, but it's still hard to get *accurate* information. And developers tend to use very short commit messages already... > But if it can be done cheaply enough at a later date even though we end > up repeating ourselves, and if it can be done _well_ enough that we > shouldn't have just asked the user in the first place, then yes, OK I > agree. I think examining the rsync algorithms should convince you that finding common chunks can be fairly efficient. (See my next message for a more concrete proposal.) --scott Rijndael AMLASH Moscow Ft. Bragg shotgun HTKEEPER SHERWOOD overthrow Uzi anthrax Yeltsin Indonesia Suharto LITEMPO Dictionary Yakima KUBARK ( http://cscott.net/ )