From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:44:59 GMT
Subject: Re: confused about preserved permissions
Message-ID: <20070820204459.GA10173@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <85y7g6ndj9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:42:34PM +0200, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:07:19PM +0200, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Mike Hommey, Mon, Aug 20, 2007 21:50:37 +0200:
> >> > On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 09:43:28PM +0200, Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> wrote:
> >> > > Git does not have tracking of file's history either.
> >> > 
> >> > Well, it has ways to track file's history, with blame and log, for
> >> > example. There is nothing similar for directories, though it could be
> >> > possible to do.
> >> 
> >> It would be not exactly "tracking". You can present the history of
> >> changes which involved the said directory.
> >> 
> >> And you could do it from day one: git log -- sub/dir
> >
> > It could be possible to really do tracking, too, like it is possible for
> > files (including renames, moves, etc.)
> 
> You are confused.  Git does not track renames or moves for files,
> either.  It just records snapshots.  It reverse engineers renames,
> moves, copying when cranking out diffs and logs and blames.

Yes, I know. And that could be done for directories, too.

Mike