Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Date
- Oct 20, 2006, 17:48 UTC
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- <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610201045550.3962@g5.osdl.org>
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote:
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> > 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.
Linus