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From: "Eckhard Maaß" <eckhard.s.maass@googlemail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Bryan Turner <bturner@atlassian.com>,
	dylanyoungmeijer@gmail.com, Git Users <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Possible GIT Bug]
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:35:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180910173512.GA22152@esm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqin3duypt.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 09:03:10AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> It is neither but if I have to pick one between the two, it is much
> closer to the former than the latter.  The primary source of this is
> that we have only *one* pathspec given to the diff machinery, but in
> order to implement your ideal "find harder", you'd need *two*.  That
> is, one set of paths for which you are interested in their origin,
> and the other set that you allow the machinery to consider as possible
> origins.  Since we can only give one pathspec machinery, that one
> pathspec is used to specify both of these sets.

How does tihs compare to `--follow`? With that knob active the machinery
indeed uses the whole repository for finding renames and/or copies. Is
this the only exception then?

Take care,
Eckhard

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-10 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAPGJNu5RPXjeib-vayVzmFkU9cZ=h5o5VDoM1vQqv2+HgtNXLw@mail.gmail.com>
2018-09-09 13:30 ` Fwd: [Possible GIT Bug] Dylan Young
2018-09-09 19:04   ` Bryan Turner
2018-09-10 13:24     ` Jeff King
2018-09-10 16:03       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-10 17:35         ` Eckhard Maaß [this message]
2018-09-10 18:37           ` Junio C Hamano

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