From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:12:37 GMT
Subject: Re: gsoc - Better git log --follow support
Message-ID: <7vk4fpemei.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110323170655.GA4392@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Obviously a solution that always provides an exact right answer is
> preferable to "pretty good results", but we'd have to keep in mind the
> performance difference.

And that is why the current --follow hack was declared to be good enough
to give "pretty good results" by its inventor, no?

I still agree with it personally, and if we _were_ to improve it out of
"hack" status, we should aim to do the right thing (provided if there is a
"right thing" exists).