Re: [PATCH] Detect renames in diff family.

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: May 19, 2005, 18:29 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0505191426000.20274@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <7v4qcz16n6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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.

Why not a fractional value instead? -M1 is 100% the same while -M.95 allows for some 5% changes.

This is clear and not based on some arbitrary level values.

>  - I have been assuming that diff_delta uses its two input
>    read-only but have not verified that myself yet.

It does.

Nicolas

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