From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@MIT.EDU>
Cc: lmage11@twcny.rr.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Proposed git mv behavioral change
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:57:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071019015715.GW14735@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D2EAAC6D-567D-454A-AECA-C90FA2C369AE@mit.edu>
Michael Witten <mfwitten@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> On 18 Oct 2007, at 11:47:32 AM, lmage11@twcny.rr.com wrote:
>
> >I don't know exactly how git manages the index
> >internally, but a
> >shortcut for this would be to simply rename the index entry in place.
>
> Seems like the shortcut would lose the history and confuse git.
No. It wouldn't. The index has no knowledge of history of anything.
For good reason. Its strictly a mapping of file name to some basic
stat information (used to determine if the file has been modified
by the user or not) and the SHA-1 of the staged blob. That's it.
No history. The shortcut the original poster was asking about
wouldn't confuse Git one bit.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-19 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-18 15:47 Proposed git mv behavioral change lmage11
2007-10-19 1:47 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-19 1:57 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-10-19 2:07 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-19 2:15 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19 2:16 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19 2:29 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-19 11:33 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-19 15:57 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-19 1:54 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19 2:54 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-19 3:19 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19 3:24 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19 3:26 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-19 3:35 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19 3:40 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-19 3:47 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19 3:53 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-19 3:58 ` Jeff King
2007-10-20 5:55 ` Ari Entlich
2007-10-20 6:24 ` Jeff King
2007-10-20 6:34 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-20 6:36 ` Jeff King
2007-10-20 6:36 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-20 6:40 ` Jeff King
2007-10-22 14:00 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-20 6:45 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-20 7:02 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-20 11:15 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-22 14:08 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-20 5:55 ` Ari Entlich
2007-10-20 6:30 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-20 7:46 ` Mike Hommey
2007-10-20 6:34 ` Jeff King
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-19 4:41 lmage11
2007-10-20 5:55 Ari Entlich
2007-10-20 6:31 ` Jeff King
2007-10-20 11:02 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-20 11:06 ` Jeff King
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