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Re: git-pull - strange (copy/rename) messages ?!

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Nov 1, 2005, 17:43 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> Btw, Junio, I thought "git pull" was only supposed to do rename 
> detection, not copy detection.

Sorry, but what do you mean by "only rename detection but not copy detection" in this case?

When you have "ce A B; ce A C; ce A D;... ; mv A Z", (ce is like cp but "copy+edit") where B-Z are all new files and A disappears from the result, trying to detect renames would end up detecting copies without extra processing; B through Z are rename destination candidates, and A is a rename source candidate (there may be others), and it turns out that B-Z all look like A.

Would it be easier to read if we say A was renamed to B, and A was renamed to C, and A was renamed to D, ...? I think the current output is easier to understand than that. B-Y gets labelled as copy of A and Z gets labelled as rename.

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Message 3 of 9 in “git-pull - strange (copy/rename) messages ?!”
  1. Duncan Mac LeodNov 1, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsNov 1, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 1, 2005
  4. Daniel BarkalowNov 1, 2005
  5. Petr BaudisNov 1, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 1, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisNov 1, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoNov 2, 2005
  9. Daniel BarkalowNov 1, 2005

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