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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Detect renames in diff family.
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On Thu, 19 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >>>>> "NP" == Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> 
> NP> 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.
> 
> NP> Why not a fractional value instead?  -M1 is 100% the same while -M.95 
> NP> allows for some 5% changes.
> 
> We are essentially saying the same thing.  Internally diff core
> uses score between 0 and 10000 but single digit proposed above
> or fractional both hides that from the user by normalizing the
> scale to something less arbitrary (in my case 0-9 in your case
> 0-1.0).

Yes, but 0-9 is putting a bound on the accuracy.  What if someone wants 
not more than 2% difference?


Nicolas