From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Tracking files across tree reorganizations
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:47:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43A0AF29.6020009@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051214234504.GL22159@pasky.or.cz>
Petr Baudis wrote:
>>>
>>>(b) If there are no notes for the given commit, we do the rename
>>>autodetection already implemented in GIT. If it yields something,
>>>we follow it.
>>
>>I don't see anything in Linus' posts that says (b) is unacceptable.
>
> If we do it at the walk time, not commit time - I didn't emphasize
> that in my previous mail while I should have.
Exactly. This is the right thing to do, because it means that just
because you made the checkin with version foo, you're forever limited to
the capabilities of version foo.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-14 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-14 21:15 Tracking files across tree reorganizations H. Peter Anvin
2005-12-14 22:36 ` Petr Baudis
2005-12-14 23:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-12-14 23:45 ` Petr Baudis
2005-12-14 23:47 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-12-14 23:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-14 23:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-12-15 0:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-15 1:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-12-15 1:44 ` Petr Baudis
2005-12-15 5:40 ` Martin Langhoff
2005-12-15 5:38 ` Martin Langhoff
2005-12-15 8:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
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