From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 06:20:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Score in diff-format
Message-ID: <xmqq386uf6po.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150129012211.GA11678@glandium.org>

Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 01:17:19PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt
>> index 15c7e79..e6cfc9b 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt
>> @@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ be committed)
>>  
>>  Status letters C and R are always followed by a score (denoting the
>>  percentage of similarity between the source and target of the move or
>> -copy), and are the only ones to be so.
>> +copy).  M may show how completely the modification rewrites the file
>> +with a score (denoting the percentage of dissimilarity).
>
> How about something like:
>
>   Status letter M may be followed by a score (denoting the percentage of
>   dissimilarity) for file rewrites.

OK.  That seems to make the end result sound more consistent by
repeated use of "status letter X".  Let's use that.

Thanks.