From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:34:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Proposed git mv behavioral change
Message-ID: <20071020063428.GC30388@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <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