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Re: Proposed git mv behavioral change

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 20, 2007, 06:34 UTC
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<20071020063428.GC30388@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<1192859758.13347.148.camel@g4mdd.entnet>
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 01:55:58AM -0400, Ari Entlich wrote:
> Might it be possible to simply get the struct cache_entry for the file
> which we want to rename, change its name property (would this involve
> xreallocing it?), and change the ce_namelen field of ce_flags?

The sort order of entries in the cache is important, so you would have to move the entry, as well.

-Peff
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