[ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle

Petr Baudis pasky at suse.cz
Fri Oct 20 21:23:19 BST 2006


Dear diary, on Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 07:48:58PM CEST, I got a letter
where Linus Torvalds <torvalds at osdl.org> said that...
> So yeah, I've seen a few strange cases myself, but they've actually been 
> interesting. Like seeing how much of a file was just a copyright license, 
> and then a file being considered a "copy" just because it didn't actually 
> introduce any real new code.

Well it's certainly "interesting" and fun to see, but is it equally fun
to handle mismerges caused by a broken detection?

I've talked to some people who really didn't mind (or even liked) Git's
heuristics when it came to _inspecting_ movement of content, but were
really nervous about merge following such heuristics.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
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