Re: renames in StGIT

["Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>]

On 24/10/06, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
> On 2006-10-24 09:48:44 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > Step 3 above is handled per file by the
> > stgit.gitmergeonefile.merge() function. This is the place where we
> > should have the rename detection. Since, the majority of the patches
> > don't rename files and, in most cases, the push finishes at step 2,
> > it is probably safe to extend this function and the users won't
> > notice a speed difference.
> >
> > I'll add it to the TODO list.
>
> Sounds good. I had a feeling it ought to be basically free in the
> majority of cases, so I'm glad to learn I'm right. :-)

Might be even simpler for 'push' but I need to do more tests - instead
of calling git-read-tree in git.merge(), just call git-merge-recursive
which handles renames and it's fully tested. My simple test detected
renames when pushing patches (both rename in base and rename in
patch). I still have to do some tweaking and write proper tests (and
probably make it less verbose).

-- 
Catalin