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Re: Score in diff-format

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 28, 2015, 18:57 UTC
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Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
>   (snip)
>   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.

Good eyes. I _think_ what happened was that break-and-then-merge (aka complete rewrite detection) came way after this was originally written, and "the only ones to be so" is stale in the world with complete rewrite feature enabled.

Perhaps update
    , and are the only ones to be so.
to
    ; M may be followed by a score to denote how complete a rewrite
    the change is.
or something like that?
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