From: Juliusz Chroboczek <juliusz.chroboczek@pps.jussieu.fr>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:22:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [darcs-devel] Darcs and git: plan of action
Message-ID: <7i7jizyy4i.fsf@lanthane.pps.jussieu.fr>
In-Reply-To: <1113874991.23938.113.camel@orca.madrabbit.org>

> > Aye, that will require some metadata on the git side (the hack,
> > suggested by Linus, of using git hashes to notice moves won't work).

> So, why won't it work?

Because two files can legitimately have identical contents without
being ``the same'' file from the VC system's point of view.

In other words, two files may happen to have the same contents but
have distinct histories.

                                        Juliusz