Re: git-pull - strange (copy/rename) messages ?!

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Nov 1, 2005, 23:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20051101230635.GA1431@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511011646070.25300@iabervon.org>

Dear diary, on Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:03:26PM CET, I got a letter where Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> told me that...

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> On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Would it be easier to read if we say A was renamed to B, and A
> > was renamed to C, and A was renamed to D, ...?  I think the
> > current output is easier to understand than that.  B-Y gets
> > labelled as copy of A and Z gets labelled as rename.
> 
> I think it's more confusing for the system to report Z differently from 
> other things, because there's nothing special about what it found, except 
> that Z happens to be last.

I agree, but I'd prefer it to be labelled as a copy+remove instead of a rename in case it is ambiguous. Just a simple rule - if the file was removed and you get multiple rename candidates, mark all of them as 'copy'.

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