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

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Nov 1, 2005, 23:36 UTC
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Dear diary, on Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:24:32AM CET, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...

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> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> What would we get for a simple "mv A B and nothing else" case if
> we follow your proposal and Pasky's?  What about "cp A B and
> nothing else" case?

In case of my proposal, you get the mv and cp as usual, since there are no multiple rename candidates for A.

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Message 7 of 9 in “git-pull - strange (copy/rename) messages ?!”
  1. Duncan Mac LeodNov 1, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsNov 1, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 1, 2005
  4. Daniel BarkalowNov 1, 2005
  5. Petr BaudisNov 1, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 1, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisNov 1, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoNov 2, 2005
  9. Daniel BarkalowNov 1, 2005

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