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Re: git-log --full-history renamed-file

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APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 10, 2007, 06:14 UTC
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On Saturday 2007, March 10, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> By the way, while it is fairly easy to follow one file, it is hard
> to follow directory or glob... and there is a trouble that one file
> might come from two files (as concatenation for example; but I don't
> think git can detect it with default values of rename detection
> heuristics).
That's not rename detection then though.

I know git is clever and has potential to be able to do rename detection even when it was rename-and-modify. For me though, I always like to make the job of the VCS easier by doing the rename in a separate commit from the modify.

I'd really like it if git would deal with the easy, 100% rename case, even if it didn't deal with the rename-two-files-to-be-one-file-and-modify-the-result case. 

Andy
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  1. Jim MeyeringMar 9, 2007
  2. Linus TorvaldsMar 9, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 10, 2007
  4. Jakub NarebskiMar 10, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 10, 2007
  6. Linus TorvaldsMar 10, 2007
  7. Andy ParkinsMar 10, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 10, 2007

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