From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: problem with git detecting proper renames
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:21:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <finl2d$9rk$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711290934260.8458@woody.linux-foundation.org
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>
>> I did some git-mv and got the following:
>>
>> the problem is git seems confused about what file was associated with its
>> source.
>
> Well, I wouldn't say "confused". It found multiple identical options for
> the source, and picked the first one (where "first one" may not be obvious
> to a human, it can depend on an internal hash order).
By the way, which git version do you use? IIRC we have improved rename
detection heuristics to take into account similarity of filenames when
contents is identical...
...ah, I see, it is git 1.5.3.4
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-30 0:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-29 16:57 problem with git detecting proper renames Kumar Gala
2007-11-29 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-29 19:06 ` Kumar Gala
2007-11-29 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-29 19:32 ` Kumar Gala
2007-11-29 20:27 ` Kumar Gala
2007-11-29 21:30 ` Fix a pathological case in " Linus Torvalds
2007-11-29 23:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-29 23:52 ` Jeff King
2007-11-30 0:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-30 0:48 ` Jeff King
2007-11-30 1:18 ` Kumar Gala
2007-11-30 0:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-30 0:21 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
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