Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus Torvalds <address@hidden> Re: log-buf-len dynamic

[Davide Libenzi]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Tom Lord wrote:

>
>     > From: Zack Brown <address@hidden>
>
>     > That's my impression from lkml discussion. I think BK isn't perfect with
>     > this, but my understanding is that when it works from a diff, it looks 
> at
>     > created and deleted files, to see if they are really renames. It takes a
>     > little extra time, but apparently it's worth it.
>
>     > One of the more impressive aspects of BK.
>
> Well, by all means, please feel free to take the few hours to code it
> up for arch.   Of course, for embedded tags, it already works :-)
> By Larry's accounting, I guess you'll be doing a few $100K worth of work.

Basically a `tla what-changed` grepping A and D entries. The comparing
(diff) every A with every D and if it matches over a certain threshold
(size of diff ratio size of file), it's a move :)



- Davide