From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Tracking files across tree reorganizations Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:47:53 -0800 Message-ID: <43A0AF29.6020009@zytor.com> References: <43A08B8F.1000901@zytor.com> <20051214223656.GJ22159@pasky.or.cz> <43A0A6E1.9070903@zytor.com> <20051214234504.GL22159@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 15 00:50:01 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmgLw-0005DI-Iv for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:48:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965118AbVLNXsF (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:48:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965119AbVLNXsF (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:48:05 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:15016 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965118AbVLNXsE (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:48:04 -0500 Received: from [10.4.1.13] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jBENlwba019711 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:47:59 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20051214234504.GL22159@pasky.or.cz> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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