From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_BLOCKED, SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8828F1FA00 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:18:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231962AbhBJPRP (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:17:15 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:51700 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229839AbhBJPRI (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:17:08 -0500 Received: from mail-wr1-x433.google.com (mail-wr1-x433.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::433]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 81637C061788 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 07:15:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-wr1-x433.google.com with SMTP id u14so3030077wri.3 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 07:15:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=message-id:in-reply-to:references:from:date:subject:fcc :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:to:cc; bh=g7m92+GCXHJiK+lksql48sZo+vVyRBf8kQOdiNcmQuc=; b=XrtsesL6qq4OEEnimnW3PjuRhKI0s/dgsN5LhzbilbC8Sf1but11P8mNFzhFOpVssm f5hHX8SgjFx62wX2nZwScgtAgchBKgRri3M80yJ2ZRWNYwXOlHhnuw4qRfeLp4ARgmSG 5WTd0LaodUuBGlWcT0hNi4EDyo3fOaXtS+PLz+j9OjGVN+jKBIJODaYhxxxsdV1k2aNy PkE/XYaImxsZJJMcozWAunBsitemcN+gFt5FZcq0IGv4ZzV48RAkt7nHob1zB7s/pNPw 4G3xmyHlzIAC8bf+pvkX4RxZk8xwQCL0+kX4ElLcrhvCBQakVBNi00z+1kX4Mm24i4HX Nnkg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:in-reply-to:references:from:date :subject:fcc:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:to:cc; bh=g7m92+GCXHJiK+lksql48sZo+vVyRBf8kQOdiNcmQuc=; b=cEuEOqVRZl0ToAGrQ3E9p8pdEXWPQDtGT5zmefkIg9HDCAhR93PXsgOeRgQq4gICcm GJLrdxlPLFYa/9fu8f5rYxwYNOG80Ir27C8NVZyKEi3tdp4O4F/4fd3iSOZXk7kSThjh 0zjYztc20Ro6PhsrHtzI46VV3Z4HrywxI0CQWbWOU9WaDyivP++r7mew/Gz/lV3KruzL 7MTMsfp9jI6vrhHHXmmmFMtXafDq97F0kDVS5tT0xuRLXkB8dk3GgOYTWt6cJU3LXFKK wO8UUWA0IhKjTL1O7PqEOq84qtf/d03MsknSw2FONhoEqa2QOmtwLtJcfuaw471rVdMT ZoHw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532nOM0K2A+jO413hq8+9d8q8w37cgtU6OSCv2euiZocclOkkIUz MlqzWNUrssg0ku35HJV4sRXJOtK5FcM= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyEN0RYxz8YzU14kzg/ceYQ6OFGj8qhyc9jCQMoAjMakL86NufB37u1yrWGiyGt0DK/SQ3hAw== X-Received: by 2002:adf:cd88:: with SMTP id q8mr3810282wrj.3.1612970150352; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 07:15:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([13.74.141.28]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a9sm3592649wrn.60.2021.02.10.07.15.49 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 10 Feb 2021 07:15:49 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: From: "Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget" Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:15:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v3 5/5] gitdiffcore doc: mention new preliminary step for rename detection Fcc: Sent Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 To: git@vger.kernel.org Cc: Derrick Stolee , Jonathan Tan , Taylor Blau , Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , Elijah Newren , Derrick Stolee , Elijah Newren , Elijah Newren Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org From: Elijah Newren The last few patches have introduced a new preliminary step when rename detection is on but both break detection and copy detection are off. Document this new step. While we're at it, add a testcase that checks the new behavior as well. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren --- Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt index c970d9fe438a..36ebe364d874 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt @@ -168,6 +168,23 @@ a similarity score different from the default of 50% by giving a number after the "-M" or "-C" option (e.g. "-M8" to tell it to use 8/10 = 80%). +Note that when rename detection is on but both copy and break +detection are off, rename detection adds a preliminary step that first +checks if files are moved across directories while keeping their +filename the same. If there is a file added to a directory whose +contents is sufficiently similar to a file with the same name that got +deleted from a different directory, it will mark them as renames and +exclude them from the later quadratic step (the one that pairwise +compares all unmatched files to find the "best" matches, determined by +the highest content similarity). So, for example, if +docs/extensions.txt and docs/config/extensions.txt have similar +content, then they will be marked as a rename even if it turns out +that docs/extensions.txt was more similar to src/extension-checks.c. +At most, one comparison is done per file in this preliminary pass; so +if there are several extensions.txt files throughout the directory +hierarchy that were added and deleted, this preliminary step will be +skipped for those files. + Note. When the "-C" option is used with `--find-copies-harder` option, 'git diff-{asterisk}' commands feed unmodified filepairs to diffcore mechanism as well as modified ones. This lets the copy -- gitgitgadget