Re: bisect / history preserving on rename + update

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 25, 2007, 17:23 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd4xb5y12.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708250819360.25853@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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>> It was corrected into the current behaviour, following the guiding 
>> principle described in this message:
>> 
>> 	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/3807
>
> Ahh, you're a wily one. Using my own words against me.

I am not being wily. I usually do not remember nor quote too old histories, but June 2005 was somewhat special to me. Those two weeks of 18-hour-straight-doing-git-and-nothing-else, working with git and with you in particular, were what taught me how fun open source development and working with brilliant others is.

> Ie, the true "guiding principle" should be the principle of minizing the 
> final diff - that's how diff is supposed to act within a single file, and 
> I think it's how the rename/copy detection is supposed to act too.

Ok, I would agree with that in principle, but that would be rather intrusive change that I am sure would have fallout to git-apply side (and anybody who interprets "git diff" output, especially gitweb), too. I am not rejecting the idea, but I won't be able to look into it myself for some time.