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Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] faster inexact rename handling

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Oct 30, 2007, 05:06 UTC
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote:
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>   - no improvement on smaller datasets. Running "git-whatchanged -M
>     --raw -l0" on the linux-2.6 repo takes about the same time with the
>     old and new code (presumably the algorithmic savings of the new code
>     are lost in a higher constant factor, so when n is small, it is a
>     wash).
Have you compared the results? IOW, does it find the *same* renames?

I'm a bit worried about the fact that you just pick a single (arbitrary) src/dst per fingerprint. Yes, it should be limited, but that seems to be a bit too *extremely* limited. But if it gives the same results in practice, maybe nobody cares?

		Linus
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Message 5 of 13 in “faster inexact rename handling”
  1. 0/3 faster inexact rename handlingJeff King, Oct 30, 2007
  2. 1/3 change hash table calling conventionsJeff King, Oct 30, 2007
  3. 2/3 introduce generic similarity libraryJeff King, Oct 30, 2007
  4. 3/3 handle renames using similarity engineJeff King, Oct 30, 2007
  5. Linus TorvaldsOct 30, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2007
  7. Jeff KingOct 30, 2007
  8. Jeff KingOct 30, 2007
  9. Linus TorvaldsOct 30, 2007
  10. Jeff KingOct 30, 2007
  11. Linus TorvaldsOct 30, 2007
  12. Andy COct 31, 2007
  13. Andy COct 31, 2007

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