Hi, On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I somehow suspect that a good mathematician can come up with a rationale > for 6 after the fact that sounds convincing, along the lines of "the > average length of commands being N, and levenshtein penalties being > <0,2,1,4>, you can insert X mistaken keystroke and/or omit Y mistaken > keystroke per every correct keystroke without exceeding this value 6, > and the percentage X and/or Y represents is not too low to be practical > but low enough to reject false positives". Being a mathematician, I was tempted to invent such a reasoning in hindsight. But I decided to be truthful instead, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html