Re: Following renames

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mar 26, 2006, 16:46 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603260843250.15714@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <e06fl8$p9f$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:

>
> I wonder what is the most common case in Linux kernel or git.
> 
> 1.) renaming the file in the same directory, old-file.c to new-file.c?

The kernel uses subdirectories extensively, and a lot of renames (most of them, I'd say) is because of that subdirectory structure.

So the same-directory case is the unusual one, I'd say.

> 3.) splitting file into modules, huge-file.c to file1.c, file2.c?
> 4.) copying fragment of one file to other?
> 5.) moving fragment of code from one file to other?

I'd say that (5) is very common. And (4) happens a lot under certain circumstances (new driver, new architecture, new filesystem..).

Doing (3) happens, but probably less often that it should ;/

		Linus