From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Subject: Re: file rename causes history to disappear Date: 06 Sep 2006 14:45:28 -0700 Message-ID: <86bqpsvfd3.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> References: <44FEE0BB.2060601@garzik.org> <44FEED4B.30909@garzik.org> <7vmz9c7pzm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 06 23:45:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GL5DB-0004aV-Kq for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:45:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932142AbWIFVpb (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:45:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932145AbWIFVpb (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:45:31 -0400 Received: from blue.stonehenge.com ([209.223.236.162]:25160 "EHLO blue.stonehenge.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932142AbWIFVp3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:45:29 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by blue.stonehenge.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A0DC8F3D9; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 14:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blue.stonehenge.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (blue.stonehenge.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11105-01-46; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 14:45:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by blue.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BF29F8F3D8; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 14:45:28 -0700 (PDT) To: Junio C Hamano x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.13.11.2; tzolkin = 7 Ik; haab = 15 Mol In-Reply-To: <7vmz9c7pzm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano writes: Junio> The only people who will get burnt by this change are the ones Junio> with metacharacters in their pathnames, so it is relative safe Junio> change. But does that mean you'll provide the equivalent to "fgrep" for "grep", as in a switch that turns this off, or a seperate command? I can think of times when I might be trying to track a file with a square bracket in the name. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!