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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] use typechange as rename source
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:10:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vmyswsfl6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071129141452.GA32670@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:14:53 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> OK. What next? Did the patch I sent make sense? Do you want a cleaned up
> version with a commit message and signoff, or does it need work?

It just hit me that breaking (as in diffcore-break) a filepair that is a
typechange may yield the same result, and if it works, that would be
conceptually cleaner.  After all, a typechange is the ultimate form of
total rewriting (the similarity between the preimage and the postimage
is very low -- even their types are different, let alone contents).

Compared to that, the rename_used++ in that codepath you touched feels
more magic to me.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-30  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-21 17:12 [RFC] use typechange as rename source Jeff King
2007-11-29  0:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-29 14:14   ` Jeff King
2007-11-30  1:10     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-11-30  1:57       ` Jeff King
2007-12-01  2:36         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-01  4:34           ` Jeff King
2007-12-01  6:08             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-01  6:13               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-01  6:35                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-01  6:49                   ` Jeff King
2007-12-02 19:15                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03  1:20                       ` Jeff King
2007-12-01  6:17             ` Jeff King

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