Re: [RFC PATCH v4 0/4] Detection of directory renames

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2010, 06:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20101004062054.GI24884@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <1286138529-6780-1-git-send-email-ydirson@altern.org>

Yann Dirson wrote:

> At last a reroll of that old series.

v3: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/99780 v2: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/99529 v1: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94612

In particular, from the cover letter to v1:

| I often found myself lost when looking at a diff where a couple of
| large dirs where renamed, and a handful of files were modified to take
| the rename into account - not a rare situation, I'd say.  In such a
| case, the diffs themselves are mostly hidden among numerous rename
| entries.
| 
| To that, I felt that git ought to know better, and could easily
| present a directory rename as such.

Yes!

> I hope we can turn the simple detection feature to something
> acceptable for inclusion - that is, once unified diff output shows the
> detected renames as annotations, and once the known major holes are
> plugged (both from FIXME and testcases).

Okay, I look forward to learning the output format.