From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:55:47 GMT
Subject: Re: git apply vs. renamed files index mismatch
Message-ID: <7vabeicf3g.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080908215441.GA924@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru>

Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> writes:

> ..rename and changes ideally go in separate patches.
>
> IIRC this also helps git to track renames (it can easily compare
> hashes instead of guessing).

It does not help much, and it is frowned upon (at least by well educated
users in git circle) because such a split patch hurts reviewability.