Re: Tracking files across tree reorganizations

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Dec 14, 2005, 23:12 UTC
Message-ID: <43A0A6E1.9070903@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051214223656.GJ22159@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis wrote:

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> Hah, here we go again. :-)
> 
> Dear diary, on Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:15:59PM CET, I got a letter
> where "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> said that...
> 
>>Did anything ever happen with that?
> 
> Linus is against it.
>

I don't think so. Linus is against the user having to explicitly record the moves, but we can detect the moves at the point of reorganization.

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> Cogito will do it anyway ;-), when someone sends me a nice patch or when
> I get to it (probably not very soon). I imagine it like this:
> 
> (a) User can explicitly note file moves / renames. We follow those notes.
> Probably the most viable for recording the notes is appending them at
> the tail of the commit message.
> 
> (b) If there are no notes for the given commit, we do the rename
> autodetection already implemented in GIT. If it yields something,
> we follow it.

I don't see anything in Linus' posts that says (b) is unacceptable.

	-hpa