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Re: rename detection

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 1, 2012, 21:07 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> Hopefully the above has answered these questions for you.
>
> However, I hope it has also showed the limitations of pure file renames
> when you are looking at content movement from one file to another.
Nice write-up.

Care to save this somewhere more permanent (e.g. git.wiki.k.org or Documentation/), after rewording the above to make it more clear that the "limitations" you mention does not have anything to do with Git, but is a fundamental flaw in thinking that it is somehow useful to track that "file A was renamed to file B"?

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