From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:06:11 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] faster inexact rename handling Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20071030042118.GA14729@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote: > > - 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