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Fix up diffcore-rename scoring

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Mar 13, 2006, 06:26 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.64.0603122223160.3618@g5.osdl.org>
The "score" calculation for diffcore-rename was totally broken.
It scaled "score" as
	score = src_copied * MAX_SCORE / dst->size;

which means that you got a 100% similarity score even if src and dest were different, if just every byte of dst was copied from src, even if source was much larger than dst (eg we had copied 85% of the bytes, but _deleted_ the remaining 15%).

That's clearly bogus. We should do the score calculation relative not to the destination size, but to the max size of the two.

This seems to fix it.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
diff --git a/diffcore-rename.c b/diffcore-rename.c
index ed99fe2..e992698 100644
--- a/diffcore-rename.c
+++ b/diffcore-rename.c
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ static int estimate_similarity(struct di
 	 * match than anything else; the destination does not even
 	 * call into this function in that case.
 	 */
-	unsigned long delta_size, base_size, src_copied, literal_added;
+	unsigned long max_size, delta_size, base_size, src_copied, literal_added;
 	unsigned long delta_limit;
 	int score;
 
@@ -144,9 +144,9 @@ static int estimate_similarity(struct di
 	if (!S_ISREG(src->mode) || !S_ISREG(dst->mode))
 		return 0;
 
-	delta_size = ((src->size < dst->size) ?
-		      (dst->size - src->size) : (src->size - dst->size));
+	max_size = ((src->size > dst->size) ? src->size : dst->size);
 	base_size = ((src->size < dst->size) ? src->size : dst->size);
+	delta_size = max_size - base_size;
 
 	/* We would not consider edits that change the file size so
 	 * drastically.  delta_size must be smaller than
@@ -174,12 +174,10 @@ static int estimate_similarity(struct di
 	/* How similar are they?
 	 * what percentage of material in dst are from source?
 	 */
-	if (dst->size < src_copied)
-		score = MAX_SCORE;
-	else if (!dst->size)
+	if (!dst->size)
 		score = 0; /* should not happen */
 	else
-		score = src_copied * MAX_SCORE / dst->size;
+		score = src_copied * MAX_SCORE / max_size;
 	return score;
 }
 
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