Re: [GitStats] Bling bling or some statistics on the git.git repository

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> >> something else I just realized: you might want to use .mailmap, e.g. 
> >> to coalesce the changes of Shawn "O." Pearce correctly.
> >
> > Yet another thing: while it is true that git-gui is usually pulled in 
> > (with the subtree strategy), some parts were changed in git.git 
> > directly, so you will need to cope with the wholesale rename with 
> > every merge.
> 
> I think I understand the cause, but I'm not sure I understand the
> consequences? Will some files at some times appear to be located at
> /path/to/file.txt and at other times at /subdir/path/to/file.txt? If
> so, how could I possibly handle that? How do I know that when it says
> /path/to/file.txt it means /subdir/path/to/file.txt instead?
>
> > Besides, it is slightly distracting to see the file names differently 
> > from what they are in HEAD^{tree}.  But that may be just me.
> 
> Different how? In that it shows the contents of subdirs? For at least
> my repo this is a Very Good Thing (tm) as all my source-code is in a
> /src directory. If all changes to subdirs were aggregated I wouldn't
> get any useful metrics at all. Or am I misunderstanding the difference
> between the current output and that of HEAD^{tree}?