Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Maintainership, and whiners...

[Mark Flacy]

On 2005.10.14 15:22, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 07:50:55AM +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>
> > No -- GIT doesn't only look for a filename match, that'd be naive.
> > Once it finds teh file, it tries to figure out if it's the same one
> > (SHA1 matches or a high similarity index). Same for identifying the
> > rename: it looks for new files in that commit with a high
> similarity
> > index.
>
> Ah, joy, so it makes an educated guess instead.
>
>  I fail to understand why the developers would go to such great   
> lengths  to develop fuzzy matching, which is *going* to fail by  
> definition in  certain circumstances, just to avoid adding a single  
> command where  the  user explicitly records a rename and gets 100%  
> accuracy.

Because fuzzy matching is an "interesting" problem.  Any fool can  
implement a rename command, and they just aren't any fools.

>  If the only solutions out there are going to make a policy of   
> assuming  I'm that lazy and trying to second-guess my every move,  
> then thanks,  but no thanks.  I'll pass on the silver hammers until  
> someone comes  up  with a (better) real toolset.

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