From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>,
Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>,
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>,
Ittay Dror <ittayd@tikalk.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: merge renamed files/directories?
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 11:47:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080506154709.GF6918@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805051724510.32269@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 05:29:12PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Maybe somebody bothers to implement some directory rename heuristic some
> day. Quite frankly, I personally cannot care less. It really is mental
> masturbation, and has absolutely no relevance for any real-world problem.
>
Actually, the directory rename hueristic *does* have relevance in at
least some real-world cases. For example, MySQL has plugin
directories, and occasionally the plugins get renamed, for whatever
reason. If a plugin gets renamed, so does its directory, and if the
rename operation happens in an experimental (or devel) branch, but
then for whatever reason, a new file is created in the devel (or
maint) branch, without the directory rename hueristic, when the
changeset is pulled into the experimental (or devel) branch, the file
will be created in the wrong directory.
So it may be rare, but this kind of thing does happen in the real
world.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-06 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-01 14:10 detecting rename->commit->modify->commit Ittay Dror
2008-05-01 14:45 ` Jeff King
2008-05-01 15:08 ` Ittay Dror
2008-05-01 15:20 ` Jeff King
2008-05-01 15:30 ` Ittay Dror
2008-05-01 15:38 ` Jeff King
2008-05-01 15:47 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-05-01 20:39 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-05-01 23:09 ` Jeff King
2008-05-02 2:06 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2008-05-02 2:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-02 16:59 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2008-05-01 15:24 ` Ittay Dror
2008-05-01 15:28 ` Jeff King
2008-05-01 14:54 ` Ittay Dror
2008-05-01 15:09 ` Jeff King
2008-05-01 15:20 ` Ittay Dror
2008-05-01 15:30 ` David Tweed
2008-05-01 15:27 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-05-01 15:34 ` Jeff King
2008-05-01 15:50 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-05-01 16:48 ` Jeff King
2008-05-01 19:45 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-05-01 22:42 ` Jeff King
2008-05-01 19:12 ` Steven Grimm
2008-05-01 23:14 ` Jeff King
2008-05-03 17:56 ` merge renamed files/directories? (was: Re: detecting rename->commit->modify->commit) Ittay Dror
2008-05-03 18:11 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-05-04 6:08 ` merge renamed files/directories? Ittay Dror
2008-05-04 9:34 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-05-05 16:40 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-05-05 21:49 ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-05-05 22:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05 23:07 ` Steven Grimm
2008-05-06 0:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-06 0:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-06 15:47 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-05-06 16:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-06 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-06 16:32 ` Ittay Dror
2008-05-06 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-06 1:38 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-05-06 1:46 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-05-06 1:58 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-05-06 2:12 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-05-06 2:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 18:17 ` detecting rename->commit->modify->commit Jeff King
2008-05-01 16:39 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2008-05-01 18:58 ` Ittay Dror
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