Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] tools/xendomains: move to sbin and use init helper

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:09:55AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 03:17 +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > What I mean by keeping the history is you can do git log --follow on the
> > script after the move.
> 
> The history is never lost. If git was actually losing history there
> would be uproar, and the structure of the repo prevents it anyway.
> 
> I skanked up an example commit (see below) and git comes up with:
>  2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 610 deletions(-)
>  rewrite tools/hotplug/Linux/init.d/xendomains (91%)
>  rename tools/hotplug/Linux/{init.d => }/xendomains (93%)
> and "git log --follow tools/hotplug/Linux/xendomains" works exactly as I
> expected, so I think things are fine.

Did you try git format-patch -M on that? I now see what you see but I don't
see git format-patch respecting the rename detection, either way we'll know
it will be so I'll just submit it, just to be clear on the submission
that I just move the code, its not a magical rewrite.

  Luis