Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] faster inexact rename handling

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:38:24AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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with the old and new code. Pairs like Documentation/git-add-script.txt
-> Documentation/git-add.txt are not found, because the file is composed
almost entirely of boilerplate.

Ok, that does imply to me that we cannot just drop boilerplate text, 
because the fact is, lots of files contain boilerplate, but people still 
think they are "similar".

Well, the problem is that instead of just "dropping" boilerplate text,
we fail to count it as a similarity, but it still counts towards the
file size. It may be that just dropping it totally is the right thing
(in which case those renames _will_ turn up, because they will be filled
with identical non-boilerplate goodness).

Hmm. I hope that is sufficient. But I suspect it may well not be. 
Especially since you ignore boiler-plate lines for *some* files but not 
others (ie it depends on which file you happen to find it in first).

Yes, that part bothers me a little, so I think a "too common, ignore"
overflow flag would at least be better.

But I think the best thing to do now is for me to shut up and see what
the results look like with the tweaks I have mentioned.

-Peff