Re: [PATCH] diffcore-rename: favour identical basenames

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 22, 2007, 15:28 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706221626450.4059@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <200706221619.30521.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

> What if two files with different filenames and content converge at some 
> point in history, then diverge again?  If git is tracking renames merely 
> by content and picks the wrong one, then the history of fileA suddenly 
> becomes the history of fileB.

This is becoming highly ethereal. Like "I could imagine that some day in future, some person could devise a device, that might allow you to do something that I can not explain, because I have not even thought of it".

IOW show me a reasonable example, and we'll talk business.

Ciao, Dscho

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