From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Grimm Subject: Re: Rename handling Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:45:45 -0700 Message-ID: <45FEE869.3040308@midwinter.com> References: <45FED31B.8070307@midwinter.com> <45FEE629.8030606@midwinter.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Nicolas Pitre , John Goerzen , git@vger.kernel.org To: Steven Grimm X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 19 20:45:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HTNnd-00036x-Lv for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:45:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752762AbXCSTpn (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:45:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752805AbXCSTpm (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:45:42 -0400 Received: from tater.midwinter.com ([216.32.86.90]:49961 "HELO midwinter.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752762AbXCSTpm (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:45:42 -0400 Received: (qmail 7924 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2007 19:45:41 -0000 Received: from c-76-21-17-123.hsd1.ca.comcast.net (HELO ?192.168.0.129?) (koreth@76.21.17.123) by tater.midwinter.com with SMTP; 19 Mar 2007 19:45:41 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) In-Reply-To: <45FEE629.8030606@midwinter.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Steven Grimm wrote: > But if my version control tool misidentifies a rename on my behalf, > and there's nothing I can do about it because there's no way to > influence the tool's concept of what got renamed to what, then I'm not > going to consider it a failure of the tool, not a mistake on my part. Err, then I am *going* to consider it a failure of the tool. -Steve