From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Grimm Subject: Re: rename directory weirdness Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:54:31 +0800 Message-ID: <46A86147.4010403@midwinter.com> References: <46A8519D.5050801@tplogic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Bert Douglas X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 26 10:54:49 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 1IDz7R-0000mj-BT for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:54:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754067AbXGZIyh (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:54:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754419AbXGZIyh (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:54:37 -0400 Received: from 91.86.32.216.static.reverse.layeredtech.com ([216.32.86.91]:57267 "HELO midwinter.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753606AbXGZIyg (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:54:36 -0400 Received: (qmail 8585 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2007 08:54:36 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=200606; d=midwinter.com; b=h7p/Vvf4EComipvEZU/YlGThe9FIN8R8VzzueNEYvqXuPL1texykn691H7hDHtK8 ; Received: from localhost (HELO sgrimm-mbp.local) (koreth@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Jul 2007 08:54:36 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (Macintosh/20070716) In-Reply-To: <46A8519D.5050801@tplogic.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Bert Douglas wrote: > $ mv dir1 dir2 > $ git add dir2 > $ git commit -a > > It popped up my editor with long list of files that it recognized as > 'renamed'. > But one file it listed as 'copied' and further down as 'deleted'. > > Why this one file out of thousands not recognized as 'renamed' ? > Is this a sign of a problem ? Are the contents of the file in question identical to those of some other file in your directory tree? I've seen that happen too. There were some proposed improvements to address this last time it came up on the list, but I'm not sure if any of them actually made it into the code base. -Steve