From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: Handling renames. Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:46:50 +0100 Message-ID: <1113518810.12012.256.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, James Bottomley X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 15 00:44:16 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMD3d-0001nR-Kh for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 00:43:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261617AbVDNWqz (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:46:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261618AbVDNWqz (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:46:55 -0400 Received: from baythorne.infradead.org ([81.187.226.107]:65167 "EHLO baythorne.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261617AbVDNWqx (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:46:53 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost.localdomain) by baythorne.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.43 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1DMD6p-00015b-9x; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:46:51 +0100 To: Daniel Barkalow In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-1.dwmw2.1) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by baythorne.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 18:23 -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > I personally think renames are a minor thing that doesn't happen > much. What actually happens, in my opinion, is that some chunk of a > file is moved to a different, possibly new, file. If this is supported > (as something that the SCM notices), then a rename is just a special > case where the moved chunk is a whole file. Certainly we'd discussed the possibility that the 'rename' field may contain more than one destination, or more than one source filename. This could happen when a file is split into two, or when two files are merged into one, for example. -- dwmw2