diffcore-rename: similarity estimator fix.

The "similarity" logic was giving added material way too much
negative weight.  What we wanted to see was how similar the
post-change image was compared to the pre-change image, so the
natural definition of similarity is how much common things are
there, relative to the post-change image's size.

This simplifies things a lot.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/diffcore-rename.c b/diffcore-rename.c
index 55cf1c37f3..625b589fb7 100644
--- a/diffcore-rename.c
+++ b/diffcore-rename.c
@@ -170,19 +170,15 @@ static int estimate_similarity(struct diff_filespec *src,
 				   &src_copied, &literal_added))
 		return 0;
 
-	/* Extent of damage */
-	if (src->size + literal_added < src_copied)
-		delta_size = 0;
-	else
-		delta_size = (src->size - src_copied) + literal_added;
-
-	/*
-	 * Now we will give some score to it.  100% edit gets 0 points
-	 * and 0% edit gets MAX_SCORE points.
+	/* How similar are they?
+	 * what percentage of material in dst are from source?
 	 */
-	score = MAX_SCORE - (MAX_SCORE * delta_size / base_size); 
-	if (score < 0) return 0;
-	if (MAX_SCORE < score) return MAX_SCORE;
+	if (dst->size < src_copied)
+		score = MAX_SCORE;
+	else if (!dst->size)
+		score = 0; /* should not happen */
+	else
+		score = src_copied * MAX_SCORE / dst->size;
 	return score;
 }