Re: file rename causes history to disappear

From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Sep 6, 2006, 21:45 UTC
Message-ID: <86bqpsvfd3.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vmz9c7pzm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

Junio> The only people who will get burnt by this change are the ones Junio> with metacharacters in their pathnames, so it is relative safe Junio> change.

But does that mean you'll provide the equivalent to "fgrep" for "grep", as in a switch that turns this off, or a seperate command?

I can think of times when I might be trying to track a file with a square bracket in the name.

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