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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Tracking files across tree reorganizations
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>HOWEVER, I maintain that this is unnecessary (and, as Linus has pointed 
>>out several time, losing) -- we already detect renames without relying 
>>on commit-time metadata.  If it's too expensive to generate the metadata 
>>on every merge, it can be cached.
> 
> 
> I agree; I was wondering why you brought it up again.
> 

Just because of Petr's comment about adding stuff to commit messages.

	-hpa