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

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote:

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).

Yeah, you may well be right, and the normalization of the scores will just 
solve things.

			Linus