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Re: git-filehistory (3rd try at detecting renames)

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Oct 20, 2005, 23:32 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0510210130480.10503@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Hi,
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, David Ho wrote:
> Sorry, once again, this calls git-diff-tree once per commit.

How about detecting renames only when the tree does not have an object of the same name? You could even use the pathspec optimizations to track just that file through history, and do a git-diff-tree on the last commit containing that file.

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. David HoOct 20, 2005
  2. Johannes SchindelinOct 20, 2005

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