From: Tarmigan <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>
To: "Kai Blin" <kai@samba.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Directory renames without breaking git log.
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:16:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <905315640809031716j7d74d7a6m51b434f62b011135@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809032338.35359.kai@samba.org>
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Kai Blin <kai@samba.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> in an effort to make Samba development easier, we're trying to merge the
> Samba3 and Samba4 branches into a single branch. In order to do so, we need
> to rename the "source" directories both Samba 3 and Samba 4 have (we're
> planning to use source3 and source4).
>
> Unfortunately, the directories are big enough that git log stops to track the
> renamed files, so e.g. git log ./samba3 does not show the samba3 history. The
> history is not lost, of course, but it's way less intuitive to get it.
You can try setting diff.renamelimit to 0 in your ~/.gitconfig. See
Linus's email here for a similar situation in the kernel:
http://lwn.net/Articles/292948/
Thanks,
Tarmigan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-04 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-03 21:38 Directory renames without breaking git log Kai Blin
2008-09-04 0:16 ` Tarmigan [this message]
[not found] ` <200809040853.36433.kai@samba.org>
2008-09-04 18:35 ` Tarmigan
2008-09-04 19:45 ` Kai Blin
2008-09-04 19:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-04 20:52 ` Kai Blin
2008-09-04 22:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-04 20:41 ` Jakub Narebski
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