Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] ci: include a Visual Studio build & test in our Azure Pipeline

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 8, 2019, 02:19 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqzhicnfmr.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1910072350300.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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>> I didn't quite understand this part, though.
>>
>>     The default creation factor is 60 (roughly speaking, it wants 60% of
>>     the lines to match between two patches, otherwise it considers the
>>     patches to be unrelated).
>>
>> Would the updated creation factor used which is 95 (roughly
>> speaking) want 95% of the lines to match between two patches?
>>
>> That would make the matching logic even pickier and reject more
>> paring, so I must be reading the statement wrong X-<.
>
> No, I must have written the opposite of what I tried to say, is all.

So, cfactor of 60 means at most 60% is allowed to differ and the two patches are still considered to be related, while 95 means only 5% needs to be common? That would make more sense to me.

Thanks.