Re: bisect / history preserving on rename + update

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

>> It was corrected into the current behaviour, following the guiding 
>> principle described in this message:
>> 
>> 	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/3807
>
> Ahh, you're a wily one. Using my own words against me.

I am not being wily.  I usually do not remember nor quote too
old histories, but June 2005 was somewhat special to me.  Those
two weeks of 18-hour-straight-doing-git-and-nothing-else,
working with git and with you in particular, were what taught me
how fun open source development and working with brilliant
others is.

> Ie, the true "guiding principle" should be the principle of minizing the 
> final diff - that's how diff is supposed to act within a single file, and 
> I think it's how the rename/copy detection is supposed to act too.

Ok, I would agree with that in principle, but that would be
rather intrusive change that I am sure would have fallout to
git-apply side (and anybody who interprets "git diff" output,
especially gitweb), too.  I am not rejecting the idea, but I
won't be able to look into it myself for some time.