On 24/11/2014 10:07, Xan wrote: > So what darcs record these changes as content changes and not as "renaming > files" changes. If the content is greater, then it's cheaper to have rename > patch than diff patch of the contents. > > Is there any reason for that? > What's is the minimal set of changes calculed between two sets of files? Is > there any theory of that? I read the theory documents and I can't see that.
In general darcs doesn't automatically try to look for "clever" changes like file move/rename and token replace. The development version of darcs (i.e. the upcoming 2.10 release) does have the --look-for-moves and --look-for-replaces flags, but they're based on heuristics and don't make any effort to find a "minimal" set of changes. I think this is an important topic though, particularly if/when darcs acquires more and more complicated patch types. Cheers, Ganesh _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
