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Subject: Re: [PATCH] diffcore-rename: favour identical basenames
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:28:47 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

> What if two files with different filenames and content converge at some 
> point in history, then diverge again?  If git is tracking renames merely 
> by content and picks the wrong one, then the history of fileA suddenly 
> becomes the history of fileB.

This is becoming highly ethereal. Like "I could imagine that some day in 
future, some person could devise a device, that might allow you to do 
something that I can not explain, because I have not even thought of it".

IOW show me a reasonable example, and we'll talk business.

Ciao,
Dscho