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Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-p4: default submit to use rename detection

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date
Jan 22, 2010, 02:42 UTC
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On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Pal-Kristian Engstad wrote:
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> Enable git's rename detection by default. This is needed to preserve
> Perforce's history.
> 
> Removed the '-M' flag and added a '--no-detect' flag to preserve the
> old behavior.

You should keep the -M flag, even if it ends up doing nothing, for backward compatibility. And --no-detect is really a bad flag name. Maybe --no-detect-renames instead?

Nicolas
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