Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle
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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
- Date
- Oct 20, 2006, 17:21 UTC
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- <20061020172125.GF18019@spearce.org>
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- <45390168.6020502@utoronto.ca>
Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley@utoronto.ca> wrote:
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> Jakub Narebski wrote: > > Gaaah, so rename detection in bzr is done using file-ids? > > Linus will tell you the inherent problems with that "solution". > > All solutions have disadvantages. We prefer the disadvantages that come > from using file-ids over the disadvantages that come from using > content-based rename detection.
As good as the content based rename detection is I got burned recently by it.
I renamed hundreds of small files in one shot and also did a few hundered adds and deletes of other small XML files. Git generated a lot of those unrelated adds/deletes as rename/modifies, as their content was very similiar. Some people involved in the project freaked as the files actually had nothing in common with one another... except for a lot of XML elements (as they shared the same DTD).