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It is not uncommon in real world repositories for the majority of file renames to not change the basename of the file; i.e. most "renames" are just a move of files into different directories. We can make use of this to avoid comparing all rename source candidates with all rename destination candidates, by first comparing sources to destinations with the same basenames. If two files with the same basename are sufficiently similar, we record the rename; if not, we include those files in the more exhaustive matrix comparison. This means we are adding a set of preliminary additional comparisons, but for each file we only compare it with at most one other file. For example, if there was a include/media/device.h that was deleted and a src/module/media/device.h that was added, and there are no other device.h files in the remaining sets of added and deleted files after exact rename detection, then these two files would be compared in the preliminary step. This commit does not yet actually employ this new optimization, it merely adds a function which can be used for this purpose. The next commit will do the necessary plumbing to make use of it. Note that this optimization might give us different results than without the optimization, because it's possible that despite files with the same basename being sufficiently similar to be considered a rename, there's an even better match between files without the same basename. I think that is okay for four reasons: (1) it's easy to explain to the users what happened if it does ever occur (or even for them to intuitively figure out), (2) as the next patch will show it provides such a large performance boost that it's worth the tradeoff, and (3) it's somewhat unlikely that despite having unique matching basenames that other files serve as better matches. Reason (4) takes a full paragraph to explain... If the previous three reasons aren't enough, consider what rename detection already does. Break detection is not the default, meaning that if files have the same _fullname_, then they are considered related even if they are 0% similar. In fact, in such a case, we don't even bother comparing the files to see if they are similar let alone comparing them to all other files to see what they are most similar to. Basically, we override content similarity based on sufficient filename similarity. Without the filename similarity (currently implemented as an exact match of filename), we swing the pendulum the opposite direction and say that filename similarity is irrelevant and compare a full N x M matrix of sources and destinations to find out which have the most similar contents. This optimization just adds another form of filename similarity comparison, but augments it with a file content similarity check as well. Basically, if two files have the same basename and are sufficiently similar to be considered a rename, mark them as such without comparing the two to all other rename candidates. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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