From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8670C77B7C for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 18:43:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234698AbjDZSnS (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2023 14:43:18 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:56018 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231186AbjDZSnQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2023 14:43:16 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 426 seconds by postgrey-1.37 at lindbergh.monkeyblade.net; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 11:43:12 PDT Received: from tilde.club (tilde.club [IPv6:2607:5300:204:4340::114]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 12ECC44BA for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 11:43:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tilde.club (tor-exit-55.for-privacy.net [185.220.101.55]) by tilde.club (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B0905220CAA85; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 18:35:54 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 tilde.club B0905220CAA85 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=tilde.club; s=mail; t=1682534158; bh=iSrdsWB9+0rky9E/qynrbznAnZytADMb5IiqemLxKw4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=ST4du/1OW3oFIz6FqPRnO0CyakJgkQKnJJzpVzQGlLC0UyIgr38IglFzdhaYziXvj lvA7Mn52aouhsQDX9fKNtuAfBOvCLsMgZRj1By9tw75TBnajI7ZJ2JMJCorq/Fei0E UJx7tHXbtg6X44mpcw/9RdrRcCCZnzxnNjk+N4SU= Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 18:35:39 +0000 From: Gwyneth Morgan To: Bran Hagger Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" , Emily Shaffer , "brian m. carlson" Subject: Re: Improving support for name changes in git Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 2023-04-04 18:00:00+0000, Bran Hagger wrote: > Has there been any further work done on supporting git name changes that I missed? Are there any existing files without git history that face similar issues? > > [1] https://code.googlesource.com/git/summit/2020/+/main/notes.md > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20210103211849.2691287-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net/ There was another proposal posted by brian last year, using signing keys the author controls instead of hashes: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20220919145231.48245-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net/T/ A different VCS, Pijul, recently adopted a system that seems similar to brian's proposal, and may provide some inspiration on the user experience. I haven't seen documentation for it, but there are some examples of commands here: https://nest.pijul.com/pijul/pijul/discussions/706