From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 20:45:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git wiki
Message-ID: <20060505204516.GA82888@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060505181540.GB27689@pasky.or.cz>

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 08:15:41PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> The automatic vs. explicit movement tracking is a lot more
> controversial. Explicit movement tracking is pretty easy to provide for
> file-level movements, it's just that the user says "I _did_ move file
> A to file B" (I never got the Linus' argument that the user has no idea
> - he just _performed_ the move, also explicitly, by calling *mv).

In one of my projects 99% or the renames are "done" when unzipping the
source release of the next version.  Explicit tracking would be
unbearable, frankly.

And once you have a good enough implicit tracking, why bother with an
explicit one?

  OG.