Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] diffcore-rename: guide inexact rename detection based on basenames

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 9, 2021, 18:59 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqa6sd2hk3.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BFfF5rxbHwP1xnr63fPmp2=NkTZ-r0=FVZ1oVhAZD_s9w@mail.gmail.com>

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

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> Since I didn't know what to use, though, and I didn't want to get a
> different set of numbers for the final commit message on the speedup
> achieved if I'm just going to throw them away and recompute once I
> find out what Junio wants here, I did intentionally set the
> computation to just give us minimum_score, for now.

I thought Derrick earlier suggested "half-way", which I found was probably a reasonable starting point. So instead of 5, divide by 8 and multiply both by 4 or something and perhaps allow a debugging knob to tweak to see what works the best in the real histories during the refinement phase of the feature?