From: Petr Baudis Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 23:06:35 GMT Subject: Re: git-pull - strange (copy/rename) messages ?! Message-ID: <20051101230635.GA1431@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: Dear diary, on Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:03:26PM CET, I got a letter where Daniel Barkalow told me that... > 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'. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.