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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, 20:39 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.0.999.0710301338260.30120@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote:
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> 
> Well, the problem is that instead of just "dropping" boilerplate text,
> we fail to count it as a similarity, but it still counts towards the
> file size. It may be that just dropping it totally is the right thing
> (in which case those renames _will_ turn up, because they will be filled
> with identical non-boilerplate goodness).

Yeah, you may well be right, and the normalization of the scores will just solve things.

			Linus
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Message 11 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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