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What is the likelihood that the commits making up the different versions would be byte-for-byte identical, however?
by et2o 8y ago
What is the likelihood that the commits making up the different versions would be byte-for-byte identical, however?
- amelius 8y agoThey don't need to be identical. You could use the same kind of algorithms as bioinformaticians use to merge multiple different DNA sequences (which can be of different length). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_distance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_distance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_sequence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_sequence