Re: inc files in recipes

[Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>]

On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 17:47 +0800, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> >From: Frans Meulenbroeks [mailto:fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com]
> >Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 5:43 PM
> >
> >>
> >>>
> >>>Here the inc file could be merged into the bb file.
> >>>This has the advantage of having only a single file, so it is slightly
> >>>easier if you want to read or maintain the recipe.
> >>
> >> One advantage of not doing so is to retrieve change history in git easily.
> >> Version change on .bb is a rename which in git is simply a remove and
> >> create, while with .inc you can easily track history. This also reduces the
> >> commit size.
> >
> >If I am correct git mv does preserve history although the name change
> >makes it a little bit more difficult to track them.
> 
> I'm not sure how that works consistently. Sometimes the rename is kept
> while most times it doesn't happen to me. :-(

Git does not track renames. Some of its tools can however detect renames
which is subtly different. See "git diff -M" which detects renames for
example.

Cheers,

Richard