From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:48:44 GMT Subject: Re: Handling renames. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <425EB4AE.4010700@zytor.com> 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