Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg)

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 1, 2007, 21:13 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702011313150.5982@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070201193647.GA18234@soma>

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Eric Wong wrote:

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> > SVN uses "inode numbers" (I think they are just UUID's generated at "svn 
> > add" time, but I'm not sure) to track file ID's across renames. Some other 
> > SCM's do the same.
> 
> I think you got this part confused with GNU Arch (and possibly
> Bzr).  SVN tracks renames in the changeset, it records (in the log)
> a copy and delete.  pathname@revision is the only "file ID" I know
> about in SVN.

Ahh, I was sure the revision files in FSFS were per-file, but coor me corrected - they seem to be per-revision.

My bad.

		Linus

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