From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:00:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Why a _full_ diff? (was: [PATCH] Char: serial167, cleanup (fwd))
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702121257590.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070212093813.GA15779@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 04:20:30AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > > | diff --git a/drivers/char/serial167.c b/drivers/char/serial167.c
> > > | dissimilarity index 67%
> > > | index af50d32..5fd314a 100644
> 
> OK, I see now. This is triggered by using 'git show -B', which breaks
> the diff apart into a big rewriting chunk. Unfortunately, I don't know
> enough about how -B works to say whether this makes sense or not.

AFAICT you can provide a minimum score with -B, just as with -M, i.e. if 
the diff score is larger than this value, it is interpreted as a complete 
rewrite.

Hth,
Dscho