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Re: Merge with git-pasky II.

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DCDiego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 26, 2005, 21:26 UTC
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El Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:31:31 -0700 (PDT), Bram Cohen <bram@bitconjurer.org> escribió:

> Even if we pretend that these are comparable features, that's far from
> clearly true. Function moves within a file occur more frequently, but a
> file rename moves *all* the functions within that file.

Renaming or moving files is _so_ rare and unusual that even not implementing it (like CVS) is hardly a big issue. Even in the linux kernel people moved subsystems around - OSS went from drivers/sound to /sound/oss in 2.6, and a USB subdirectory moved too, I think.

The patch got bigger. People wasted 30 seconds more of their life because the .gz file was bigger - who cares? If it's something it's going to happen every 5 years, I'd rather move them like CVS does rather than wasting a single second implementing file renaming/moving...

If something so uncommon like file renaming has been implemented, I don't see why people shouldn't implement something really useful like the thing linus proposes, in fact it doesn't looks like a bad idea at all (and you'd get file renaming for free, too). Perhaps it would be hard to implement and get right, but at least it would be _useful_.

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Message 13 of 15 in “Re: Merge with git-pasky II.”
  1. Bram CohenApr 26, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsApr 26, 2005
  3. Tom LordApr 26, 2005
  4. Bram CohenApr 26, 2005
  5. Tom LordApr 26, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsApr 26, 2005
  7. Linus TorvaldsApr 26, 2005
  8. Bram CohenApr 26, 2005
  9. Fabian FranzApr 26, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsApr 26, 2005
  11. Linus TorvaldsApr 26, 2005
  12. Petr BaudisApr 28, 2005
  13. Diego CallejaApr 26, 2005
  14. Daniel BarkalowApr 26, 2005
  15. Tom LordApr 26, 2005

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