From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:39:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] faster inexact rename handling
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710301338260.30120@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071030202014.GA22733@coredump.intra.peff.net>



On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> 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