From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Score in diff-format Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:20:51 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20150128062309.GA29506@glandium.org> <54C8F306.1000001@drmicha.warpmail.net> <20150129012211.GA11678@glandium.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Michael J Gruber , git@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Hommey X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 29 07:21:00 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YGiTK-0007BT-D1 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 07:20:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754787AbbA2GUy (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2015 01:20:54 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp1.int.icgroup.com ([208.72.237.35]:61631 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752200AbbA2GUx (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2015 01:20:53 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EA672935C; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 01:20:53 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=CHoZk/duJuGHnR2Dbbwos/fXeNg=; b=Zw0VTp 4CSMkM39H4ohf7dX4yYz+rAFGLhR0NFk32JAAOeUuTLdKEUhVFQRgIaj/X45L3fU 5mxm+LYxujWhB7oQoojvRsRIL9Xigi6upYTlRIklwzWYbkaoYalBM1g/cHFDZrTP 4sDIRbqo3iJYE2Dlv2M4PhDcoly0qY2h4rEOc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=weRB6r0v1EXkugDqxLElYFbrK51m/IiY Hu2IL36sJLN7UFiMBYpA8ixwZ+xaRiUsEalKsdQhU98taUfSqOuC9zMc+3y/7EFY Vb7tneWAAv/96pBZWx0T6701c861+/mzDoXIY1/78uG2ZkGyEfZ+AgvnAsmf4rKb z/Vshy5w+9w= Received: from pb-smtp1.int.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45B1F2935B; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 01:20:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C0A1D2935A; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 01:20:52 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20150129012211.GA11678@glandium.org> (Mike Hommey's message of "Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:22:11 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: F9E1C214-A77E-11E4-8C25-7BA29F42C9D4-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Mike Hommey writes: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 01:17:19PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt >> index 15c7e79..e6cfc9b 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt >> @@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ be committed) >> >> 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. >> +copy). M may show how completely the modification rewrites the file >> +with a score (denoting the percentage of dissimilarity). > > How about something like: > > Status letter M may be followed by a score (denoting the percentage of > dissimilarity) for file rewrites. OK. That seems to make the end result sound more consistent by repeated use of "status letter X". Let's use that. Thanks.