From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: [PATCH] Detect renames in diff family. Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 14:29:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <7vu0kz1p6k.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v4qcz16n6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 19 20:31:44 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYpmP-0007XM-1Q for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 20:29:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261165AbVESSan (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 14:30:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261159AbVESSan (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 14:30:43 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:17751 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261212AbVESSai (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 14:30:38 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([24.200.213.96]) by VL-MO-MR007.ip.videotron.ca (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IGR00AIQ21MMH@VL-MO-MR007.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 14:29:46 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <7v4qcz16n6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-X-Sender: nico@localhost.localdomain To: Junio C Hamano Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 19 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > - the command line interface "-M" to read "-M" or "-M[0-9]" > (one digit); -M defaults to -M5 and give the cut-off point at > similarity score 5000, -M9 at 9000, etc. Why not a fractional value instead? -M1 is 100% the same while -M.95 allows for some 5% changes. This is clear and not based on some arbitrary level values. > - I have been assuming that diff_delta uses its two input > read-only but have not verified that myself yet. It does. Nicolas