On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 00:15 +0200, Jens-Heiner Rechtien wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> AFAIK the heuristic works only if the hash over the file is the same. A 
> slight change, for instance adapting the name of the file in the license 
> header (however stupid such a thing might be) will spoil the heuristic, 

I don't know exactly what method git uses internally to detect file
move, but I know for a fact that it detects file moves even when the
moved file gets slightly edited afterward.  I've seen that happen many
times over the course of my git usage.

Kohei

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Kohei Yoshida - OpenOffice.org Engineer - Novell, Inc.
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