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boxedtoday at 11:14 AM1 replyview on HN

Just looking at how often a file changes without knowing how big the file is seems a bit silly. Surely it should be changes/line or something?


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grepsedawktoday at 1:19 PM

Sure, normalizing by size would be more precise. But this is a quick gut check to know which files to look at first, not a metric.