Re: Failed expectations or bug?

From: Matthias Kestenholz <mk@spinlock.ch>
Date: Sep 4, 2008, 10:18 UTC
Message-ID: <1f6632e50809040318n2974cdf2t3664c759978dc8d3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <EA0C3F3E-0DA8-49A7-8151-5A2EC6C7BEEA@simplicidade.org>

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Pedro Melo <melo@simplicidade.org> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I was learning about git rename detection and came across a unexpected
> result. See the following sequence:
>
> [...]
>
> Maybe I have the wrong expectations, but after the merge I was expecting
> either:
>
>  * b and c have the same content, with the modified D;
>  * b has the modifications made in master, and c has the original content.
>
> I did not expect the patch to 'a' in master to propagate across the copy to
> c.
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
>

The rename detection needs more than a single character to work reliably.

If you do roughly the same test but with bigger files you should get better the results.

Matthias