Re: Gerrit, GitButler, and Jujutsu projects collaborating on change-id commit footer
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- Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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- Apr 9, 2025, 19:13 UTC
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On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 05:56:16AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> It is not "simpler is more manageable". > > The early days' design decision, which still lives to this day, was > a bit stronger than that. As can be read from [*1*] (which by the > way I consider one of the most important message regarding the > design in early days of Git), the design started from "recording > renames is pointless". > > *1* https://lore.kernel.org/git/Pine.LNX.4.58.0504150753440.7211@ppc970.osdl.org/
Allow me to withdraw my use of similarity heuristics for renames as an argument against similarity heuristics over change IDs. I still think that explicit change IDs would be better than using only commit similarity heuristics.
Nico