Re: [GitStats] Bling bling or some statistics on the git.git repository

["Sverre Rabbelier" <alturin@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> something else I just realized: you might want to use .mailmap, e.g. to
>> coalesce the changes of Shawn "O." Pearce correctly.
>
> Yet another thing: while it is true that git-gui is usually pulled in
> (with the subtree strategy), some parts were changed in git.git directly,
> so you will need to cope with the wholesale rename with every merge.

I think I understand the cause, but I'm not sure I understand the
consequences? Will some files at some times appear to be located at
/path/to/file.txt and at other times at /subdir/path/to/file.txt? If
so, how could I possibly handle that? How do I know that when it says
/path/to/file.txt it means /subdir/path/to/file.txt instead?

> Besides, it is slightly distracting to see the file names differently from
> what they are in HEAD^{tree}.  But that may be just me.

Different how? In that it shows the contents of subdirs? For at least
my repo this is a Very Good Thing (tm) as all my source-code is in a
/src directory. If all changes to subdirs were aggregated I wouldn't
get any useful metrics at all. Or am I misunderstanding the difference
between the current output and that of HEAD^{tree}?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier