On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:24:22PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Is the reason why you mention "incremental" specifically because you only > tested incremental, or you get identical result in non-incremental mode? I've only tested incremental at this point. > If your material is repetitive, say you have lines "A A A B C A A A" in > the parent blob and "A A A B A A A" in the child blob, and you are trying > to pass blame on three line block "A A A" at the beginning of the child, > we can pass blame to the three lines at the beginning part, or to the end > part, without Linus's common tail trimming optimization. But there is no > way it can match the end part with the optimization. > > You cannot say one result is more correct than the other --- both are > equally correct. Of course, you could argue that with such a highly > repetitive material, it may be better to match closer ones, but it's a > judgement call. Okay, that makes sense. Thanks. -bcd -- 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
