From: "René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 100%
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:11:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <467D0DE8.6030104@lsrfire.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706231259021.4059@racer.site>
Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, René Scharfe wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
>>
>>> By the same reasoning, you could say "never round down to 0%, because
>>> I want to know when there is no similarity".
>>>
>>> You cannot be exact when you have to cut off fractions, so why try for
>>> _exactly_ one number?
>> Because completeness is special.
>
> I am not convinced. My vote is still for the _common_ practice of just
> rounding. IOW keep it as is.
As I already hinted at, the common result of comparing two files, as
done by e.g. cmp(1), is one bit that indicates equality. This
information is lost when using up/down rounding, but it is retained when
rounding down. It's _not_ common to be unable to determine equality
from the result of a file compare.
René
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-23 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-21 3:06 Basename matching during rename/copy detection Shawn O. Pearce
2007-06-21 3:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-21 8:00 ` Andy Parkins
2007-06-21 8:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-21 9:50 ` Andy Parkins
2007-06-21 11:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-21 12:44 ` Andy Parkins
2007-06-21 12:53 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-06-21 13:10 ` Jeff King
2007-06-21 13:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-21 13:25 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-06-21 13:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-21 15:37 ` Steven Grimm
2007-06-21 15:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-21 16:57 ` Steven Grimm
2007-06-21 13:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-21 3:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-21 11:52 ` [PATCH] diffcore-rename: favour identical basenames Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-21 13:19 ` Jeff King
2007-06-21 14:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-21 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-21 17:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-21 18:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-22 15:19 ` Andy Parkins
2007-06-22 15:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-22 17:51 ` Aidan Van Dyk
2007-06-22 1:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-22 5:41 ` Jeff King
2007-06-22 10:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-22 7:17 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-06-22 10:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-22 10:52 ` 100% (was: [PATCH] diffcore-rename: favour identical basenames) David Kastrup
2007-06-22 12:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <86abusi1fw.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-06-23 1:31 ` 100% Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-23 10:18 ` 100% René Scharfe
2007-06-23 10:56 ` 100% Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-23 11:41 ` 100% René Scharfe
2007-06-23 12:00 ` 100% Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-23 12:11 ` René Scharfe [this message]
2007-06-23 12:21 ` 100% Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-24 22:23 ` 100% René Scharfe
2007-06-23 19:33 ` 100% Junio C Hamano
2007-06-23 20:41 ` 100% Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-23 5:44 ` [PATCH] diffcore-rename: favour identical basenames Junio C Hamano
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