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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-pull - strange (copy/rename) messages ?!
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 00:06:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051101230635.GA1431@pasky.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511011646070.25300@iabervon.org>

Dear diary, on Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:03:26PM CET, I got a letter
where Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> told me that...
> On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Would it be easier to read if we say A was renamed to B, and A
> > was renamed to C, and A was renamed to D, ...?  I think the
> > current output is easier to understand than that.  B-Y gets
> > labelled as copy of A and Z gets labelled as rename.
> 
> I think it's more confusing for the system to report Z differently from 
> other things, because there's nothing special about what it found, except 
> that Z happens to be last.

I agree, but I'd prefer it to be labelled as a copy+remove instead of a
rename in case it is ambiguous. Just a simple rule - if the file was
removed and you get multiple rename candidates, mark all of them as
'copy'.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which
it doesn't.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-01 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-01 15:40 git-pull - strange (copy/rename) messages ?! Duncan Mac Leod
2005-11-01 16:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-01 17:43   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-01 22:03     ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-11-01 23:06       ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2005-11-01 23:24       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-01 23:36         ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-02  0:35           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-01 23:39         ` Daniel Barkalow

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