also sprach Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@redhat.com> [2010.02.11.1444 +1300]:
> If you rename a file and change some lines, or if you do a major change 
> in a file, git has an algorithm to autodetect it.
> 
> For example:
> 
>  1 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
>  rewrite format_waiting_patches.pl (75%)

I am not sure the percentage indicates overlap in the way we would
be able to use it to automatically supersede patches, but I also
just didn't really understand the source code (I think it's in
diff.c).

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