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Re: Handling renames.

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Oct 22, 2005, 01:28 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0510211826350.10477@g5.osdl.org>
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On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
>   How to track renames? I believe the situation has changed in the last
> half a year.
I disagree.

Every single thing that said that renames were a bad idea to track when git started is still equally true.

>   If I convince you that it is worth tracking the renames explicitly,
> "how" is already a minor question.
Never. I'm 100% convinced that tracking renames is WRONG WRONG WRONG.
You can follow renames _afterwards_.

Git tracks contents. And I think we've proven that figuring out renames after-the-fact from those contents is not only doable, but very well supported already.

I'm convinced that git handles renames better than any other SCM ever. Exactly because we figure it out when it matters.

		Linus
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