Re: Tracking files across tree reorganizations

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Dec 14, 2005, 23:44 UTC
Message-ID: <43A0AE6B.3040309@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512141538440.3292@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
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>>Linus is against it.
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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:
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> I warn people that if cogito starts polluting the commit messages too 
> much, I'll stop pulling from such trees.
>

I agree, putting that into the commit messages sounds like a pretty bad thing. If anything it should go in the commit header, possibly in the form of an object reference (with the object carrying the actual data.)

HOWEVER, I maintain that this is unnecessary (and, as Linus has pointed out several time, losing) -- we already detect renames without relying on commit-time metadata. If it's too expensive to generate the metadata on every merge, it can be cached.

	-hpa