Dear diary, on Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 07:48:58PM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said that... > So yeah, I've seen a few strange cases myself, but they've actually been > interesting. Like seeing how much of a file was just a copyright license, > and then a file being considered a "copy" just because it didn't actually > introduce any real new code. Well it's certainly "interesting" and fun to see, but is it equally fun to handle mismerges caused by a broken detection? I've talked to some people who really didn't mind (or even liked) Git's heuristics when it came to _inspecting_ movement of content, but were really nervous about merge following such heuristics. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat Oct 21 06:23:31 2006
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