[ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle

Jan Hudec bulb at ucw.cz
Sat Oct 21 20:20:38 BST 2006


On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 07:51:43PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Jan Hudec wrote:
> 
> > Besides I start to think that it should be actually possible to solve
> > this case with the git-style approach. I have to state beforehand, that
> > I don't know how the most recent git algorithm works, but I imagine
> > there is some kind of 'brackets' saying the text is in a given file. Now
> > if those 'brackets' were not flat, but nested, ie. instead of saying
> > 'this is in foo/bar' it would say 'this is in bar is in foo', the
> > difference when renaming directory would only affect the 'outer bracket'
> > and therefore merge correctly with adding content inside it.
> 
> You mean, to consider "contents" of a directory union of contents
> of files and directories it contains, and then use the same "rename
> detection" algorithm as for files?

Yes, something like that.

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                  				- Jan Hudec `Bulb' <bulb at ucw.cz>




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