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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
	Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git apply vs. renamed files index mismatch
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:55:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vabeicf3g.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080908215441.GA924@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> (Anton Vorontsov's message of "Tue, 9 Sep 2008 01:54:41 +0400")

Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> writes:

> ..rename and changes ideally go in separate patches.
>
> IIRC this also helps git to track renames (it can easily compare
> hashes instead of guessing).

It does not help much, and it is frowned upon (at least by well educated
users in git circle) because such a split patch hurts reviewability.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-09  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1220900995-11928-1-git-send-email-becky.bruce@freescale.com>
     [not found] ` <1220900995-11928-2-git-send-email-becky.bruce@freescale.com>
     [not found]   ` <48C57A92.6060608@freescale.com>
2008-09-08 21:27     ` git apply vs. renamed files index mismatch (was: Re: [PATCH 1/4] POWERPC: Rename dma_64.c to dma.c) Anton Vorontsov
2008-09-08 21:38       ` git apply vs. renamed files index mismatch Scott Wood
2008-09-08 21:54         ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-09-09  0:55           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-09-09  9:06           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-09-08 21:58       ` git apply vs. renamed files index mismatch (was: Re: [PATCH 1/4] POWERPC: Rename dma_64.c to dma.c) Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-09  0:53       ` git apply vs. renamed files index mismatch Junio C Hamano
2008-09-09 10:06         ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-09-09 14:45           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-09 15:14             ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-09-10  3:31               ` Junio C Hamano

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