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authorLibravatar Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>2021-02-14 07:51:47 +0000
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-02-15 18:02:16 -0800
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diffcore-rename: compute basenames of source and dest candidates
We want to make use of unique basenames among remaining source and destination files to help inform rename detection, so that more likely pairings can be checked first. (src/moduleA/foo.txt and source/module/A/foo.txt are likely related if there are no other 'foo.txt' files among the remaining deleted and added files.) Add a new function, not yet used, which creates a map of the unique basenames within rename_src and another within rename_dst, together with the indices within rename_src/rename_dst where those basenames show up. Non-unique basenames still show up in the map, but have an invalid index (-1). This function was inspired by the fact that in real world repositories, files are often moved across directories without changing names. Here are some sample repositories and the percentage of their historical renames (as of early 2020) that preserved basenames: * linux: 76% * gcc: 64% * gecko: 79% * webkit: 89% These statistics alone don't prove that an optimization in this area will help or how much it will help, since there are also unpaired adds and deletes, restrictions on which basenames we consider, etc., but it certainly motivated the idea to try something in this area. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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