From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:49:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Handling renames.
Message-ID: <425EBB2D.3060508@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504141145220.7211@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>Although Linus is correct in that an SCM doesn't *have* to handle this, 
>>it really feels like shooting for mediocracy to me.  We might as well 
>>design it right from the beginning.
> 
> No. git is not an SCM. it's a filesystem designed to _host_ an SCM, and 
> that _is_ doing it right from the beginning.
> 
> Keep the abstractions clean. Do _not_ get confused into thinking that git 
> is an SCM. If you think of it that way, you'll end up with crap you can't 
> think about.
> 
> And at a filesystem layer, "rename" already exists. It's moving an object 
> to a new name in a tree. git already does that very well, thank you very 
> much.
> 
> But a filesystem rename is _not_ the same thing as an SCM rename.  An SCM 
> rename is built on top of a filesystem rename, but it has its own issues 
> that may or may not make sense for the filesystem.
> 

I wasn't referring to git per se, I was referring to the hosted SCM.

	-hpa