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From: Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ignore end-of-line style when computing similarity score for  rename detection
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:22:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4683619A.F753C97E@eudaptics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070628024603.GA1534@midwinter.com

Steven Grimm wrote:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter•com>
> ---
> Okay, let's try this again with an MUA that won't change my tabs to
> spaces -- sorry about that.
> 
> A couple of source files got checked into my code base with DOS-style
> end-of-line characters. I converted them to UNIX-style (the convention
> for this project) in my branch. Then later, I renamed a couple of them.
> 
> Meanwhile, back in the original branch, someone else fixed a bug in one
> of the files and checked it in, still with DOS-style line endings.
> 
> When I merged that change into my branch, git didn't detect the rename
> because the fact that every line has a change (the end-of-line
> character) dropped the similarity score way too low.
> 
> This patch teaches git to ignore end-of-line style when looking for
> potential rename candidates. A separate question, which I expect may be
> more controversial, is what to do with conflict markers; with this
> patch, the entire file is still marked as in conflict if the end-of-line
> style changes (but it's still an improvement in that we at least detect
> the rename now.)

I think that nobody would object to have a use-case description like
this in the commit message...

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-28  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-28  2:39 [PATCH] Ignore end-of-line style when computing similarity score for rename detection Steven Grimm
2007-06-28  2:46 ` Steven Grimm
2007-06-28  7:22   ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2007-06-28  8:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-28  4:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-28  6:04   ` Steven Grimm
2007-06-28  6:18     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-06-29  6:34       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-28 12:41     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-28 18:17       ` Steven Grimm
2007-06-29 10:19         ` Johannes Schindelin

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