From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Anderson Subject: Re: Errors GITtifying GCC and Binutils Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:06:40 -0500 Message-ID: <20060324000640.GK26071@mythryan2.michonline.com> References: <20060322133337.GU20746@lug-owl.de> <44223B90.3040500@zytor.com> <1143128751.6850.35.camel@neko.keithp.com> <20060323210215.GH26071@mythryan2.michonline.com> <7vacbg4t48.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 24 01:07:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FMZpt-0007yz-Jj for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:07:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422741AbWCXAHY (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:07:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422743AbWCXAHY (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:07:24 -0500 Received: from mail.autoweb.net ([198.172.237.26]:58521 "EHLO mail.internal.autoweb.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422741AbWCXAHX (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:07:23 -0500 Received: from c-68-60-186-73.hsd1.mi.comcast.net ([68.60.186.73] helo=h4x0r5.com) by mail.internal.autoweb.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1FMZpp-0008HS-R4; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:07:23 -0500 Received: from mythical ([10.254.251.11] ident=Debian-exim) by h4x0r5.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FMZpp-0006oS-FC; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:07:21 -0500 Received: from ryan by mythical with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FMZpU-0006dr-V0; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:07:00 -0500 To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vacbg4t48.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 X-h4x0r5.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-h4x0r5.com-MailScanner-From: ryan@michonline.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:51:51PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ryan Anderson writes: > > > Git has taken a very pragmatic approach, in that the goal has been "What > > is the smallest number of concepts we can create that let us solve the > > problem, even if we occassionally have to make some tradeoffs?" > > (Thinking of rename detection there, mostly.) > > I do not see it as a tradeoff not to record renames. It _is_ a > feature. Oh, I don't disagree. What I was getting at was that not recording renames means we've traded off a little bit of speed and maybe accuracy, when we care about renames, for a simpler, better implementation. It's a tradeoff, but one that was very much the right decision, IMO. -- Ryan Anderson sometimes Pug Majere