From: Aaron Bentley Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:47:27 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle Message-ID: <45390BAF.5040405@utoronto.ca> In-Reply-To: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Aaron Bentley wrote: > >>All solutions have disadvantages. We prefer the disadvantages that come >>from using file-ids over the disadvantages that come from using >>content-based rename detection. > > > That's fine, but please don't call the git rename handling "maybe" or > "partial", like a lot of people seem to do. > > Git _definitely_ handles renames, both in everyday life and when merging. Hmm. Could you say more here? The only examples I can think of for handling renames are situations that can be expressed as a merge. For example, populating a working tree can be expressed as: BASE: nothing THIS: nothing OTHER: aabbccddee Or revert can be expressed as BASE: current THIS: current OTHER: aabbccddee Or fast-forward pull BASE: last-commit THIS: current OTHER: aabbccddee Aaron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFOQuv0F+nu1YWqI0RAotBAKCEEzvh1Cc2jJH4NIEBwoYrDJlbUQCgiPBF DZ4+hSbkjbvgOwbT4+oLzFA= =wSgK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----