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    Do linear-time/space rename logic for exact renames · 9027f53c
    Linus Torvalds 提交于
    This implements a smarter rename detector for exact renames, which
    rather than doing a pairwise comparison (time O(m*n)) will just hash the
    files into a hash-table (size O(n+m)), and only do pairwise comparisons
    to renames that have the same hash (time O(n+m) except for unrealistic
    hash collissions, which we just cull aggressively).
    
    Admittedly the exact rename case is not nearly as interesting as the
    generic case, but it's an important case none-the-less. A similar general
    approach should work for the generic case too, but even then you do need
    to handle the exact renames/copies separately (to avoid the inevitable
    added cost factor that comes from the _size_ of the file), so this is
    worth doing.
    
    In the expectation that we will indeed do the same hashing trick for the
    general rename case, this code uses a generic hash-table implementation
    that can be used for other things too.  In fact, we might be able to
    consolidate some of our existing hash tables with the new generic code
    in hash.[ch].
    Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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