From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:36:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Tracking files across tree reorganizations
Message-ID: <7vd5jzurfi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <43A0AE6B.3040309@zytor.com>

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> HOWEVER, I maintain that this is unnecessary (and, as Linus has pointed 
> out several time, losing) -- we already detect renames without relying 
> on commit-time metadata.  If it's too expensive to generate the metadata 
> on every merge, it can be cached.

I agree; I was wondering why you brought it up again.