Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle

> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote:
>>
>> I renamed hundreds of small files in one shot and also did a few
>> hundered adds and deletes of other small XML files.  Git generated
>> a lot of those unrelated adds/deletes as rename/modifies, as their
>> content was very similiar.  Some people involved in the project
>> freaked as the files actually had nothing in common with one
>> another... except for a lot of XML elements (as they shared the
>> same DTD).
>
> Heh. We can probably tweak the heuristics (one of the _great_ things about
> content detection is that you can fix it after the fact, unlike the
> alternative).
>
> That said, I've personally actually found the content-based similarity
> analysis to often be quite informative, even when (and perhaps
> _especially_ when) it ended up showing something that the actual author of
> the thing didn't intend.
>
> So yeah, I've seen a few strange cases myself, but they've actually been
> interesting. Like seeing how much of a file was just a copyright license,
> and then a file being considered a "copy" just because it didn't actually
> introduce any real new code.
>