D987: copies: add a config to limit the number of candidates to check in heuristics
yuja (Yuya Nishihara)
phabricator at mercurial-scm.org
Fri Oct 13 10:00:27 EDT 2017
yuja added a comment.
In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D987#17308, @pulkit wrote:
> In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D987#17141, @yuja wrote:
>
> > - do not try to find copy from the first n candidates, and show the message saying copy tracing is disabled due to too many candidates,
>
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> Should we just disable copy trace or fallback to the full copytracing algorithm? I like falling back to full copytracing rather than disabling straight away.
Is the full tracing faster than the heuristics in that case? If not, falling back
wouldn't be an option.
>> - or show the message only when copy cannot be detected.
>
> Did you mean, "show a message only when copy cannot be detected and we have more candidates than the limit"?
Yes, but I prefer the former option, "don't search copy source because there
are too many candidates", which seems easier to follow.
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