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

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Tupshin Harper <address@hidden>

    > >The much more common case is applying a patch from a non-BK-using
    > >developer (still the majority, I think) -- patches represent moved files
    > >as a big delete plus a big add.
    > >

    > What about thinking thinking about the entire problem in terms of the 
    > general case where code moves from one file to another (while being 
    > modified as well), with wholesale file moves being a special case of that?


Good luck.   (You've now edged into an area of "fundamental research"
and one that, given the choice, I wouldn't fund (since positive
results are unlikely).)

The lynch-pin here:  you said "code moves" -- what's "code" from the
tool's perspective? 

-t