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Re: Handling renames.

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Apr 14, 2005, 18:48 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0504141145220.7211@ppc970.osdl.org>
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Although Linus is correct in that an SCM doesn't *have* to handle this, 
> it really feels like shooting for mediocracy to me.  We might as well 
> design it right from the beginning.

No. git is not an SCM. it's a filesystem designed to _host_ an SCM, and that _is_ doing it right from the beginning.

Keep the abstractions clean. Do _not_ get confused into thinking that git is an SCM. If you think of it that way, you'll end up with crap you can't think about.

And at a filesystem layer, "rename" already exists. It's moving an object to a new name in a tree. git already does that very well, thank you very much.

But a filesystem rename is _not_ the same thing as an SCM rename. An SCM rename is built on top of a filesystem rename, but it has its own issues that may or may not make sense for the filesystem.

		Linus
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Message 10 of 20 in “Handling renames.”
  1. David WoodhouseApr 14, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsApr 14, 2005
  3. David WoodhouseApr 14, 2005
  4. Ingo MolnarApr 14, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsApr 14, 2005
  6. Ingo MolnarApr 14, 2005
  7. David WoodhouseApr 14, 2005
  8. David MansfieldApr 14, 2005
  9. H. Peter AnvinApr 14, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsApr 14, 2005
  11. H. Peter AnvinApr 14, 2005
  12. Zach WelchApr 14, 2005
  13. Andrew Timberlake-NewellApr 14, 2005
  14. Naming the SCM (was Re: Handling renames.)Steven Cole, Apr 14, 2005
  15. Petr BaudisApr 14, 2005
  16. H. Peter AnvinApr 14, 2005
  17. Petr BaudisApr 14, 2005
  18. Peter WilliamsApr 14, 2005
  19. Daniel BarkalowApr 14, 2005
  20. David WoodhouseApr 14, 2005

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