Re: Partial checkouts / submodules

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Nov 20, 2007, 19:15 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711201401090.32410@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <87ir3wzqzj.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Sergei Organov wrote:

> I got the same impression, and then I wonder if the next logical thing
> the OP will need is, say, support for content moves between
> submodules. Somehow I doubt git will ever support that.

I don't see why not. If you tell the diff engine to look for content moves, and you tell it to descend into submodules that you have, and you have both ends of the content move, and you're looking at a supermodule commit where such a content move happened, it should show it.

If any of these aren't true (and I don't think we have a "descend into available submodules" option currently), you won't see it as a content move, but you wouldn't expect to; you don't want to get a diff that says: "move from (path you don't have) to (path you have)", with the diff showing changes in the process, when you didn't have the original.

	-Daniel
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