From: David Lang Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:58:09 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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. > isn't the default to consider them a copy if they are 80% the same, with a command line option to tweak this (IIRC -m, but I could easily be wrong) David Lang