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Re: Adding Git to Better SCM Initiative : Comparison

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CSChris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@cox.net>
Date
Dec 10, 2007, 16:50 UTC
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<20071210165052.GA22327@pe.Belkin>
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 03:49:39PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
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> * Jakub Narebski:
> 
> > +                <s id="git">
> > +                    Yes (or no depending on interpretation). Git
> 
> This should be "No." (same for copies below).

ISTM that people are stuck using less than helpful criteria for judging whether renames are supported. Namely, in effect, they ask: "Does the user get to do extra work in order to get rename-detection?"

Let me humbly suggest an alternate, two-fold, very practical criteria that I actually care about as a user:

1) If I edit file A, while another developer renames file A to B, and
I merge my work with his, do I have to clean things up myself, or does
everything Just Work?
2) If I'm browsing the history of some code in a renamed file, does
the history continue through the rename?
By these criteria, git certainly does support renames.
-chris
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  2. Eyvind BernhardsenDec 10, 2007
  3. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2007
  4. David KastrupDec 10, 2007
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  6. Johannes SchindelinDec 10, 2007
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  8. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2007
  9. Florian WeimerDec 10, 2007
  10. Linus TorvaldsDec 10, 2007
  11. Chris ShoemakerDec 10, 2007
  12. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2007
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  14. Dmitry PotapovJan 14, 2008
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