Re: Errors GITtifying GCC and Binutils

From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Date: Mar 24, 2006, 00:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20060324000640.GK26071@mythryan2.michonline.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vacbg4t48.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:51:51PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> writes:
> 
> > Git has taken a very pragmatic approach, in that the goal has been "What
> > is the smallest number of concepts we can create that let us solve the
> > problem, even if we occassionally have to make some tradeoffs?"
> > (Thinking of rename detection there, mostly.)
> 
> I do not see it as a tradeoff not to record renames.  It _is_ a
> feature.

Oh, I don't disagree.

What I was getting at was that not recording renames means we've traded off a little bit of speed and maybe accuracy, when we care about renames, for a simpler, better implementation.

It's a tradeoff, but one that was very much the right decision, IMO.

-- 
Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere