Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git wiki

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: May 5, 2006, 18:27 UTC
Message-ID: <e3g5em$q0f$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060505181540.GB27689@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis wrote:

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> The automatic vs. explicit movement tracking is a lot more
> controversial. Explicit movement tracking is pretty easy to provide for
> file-level movements, it's just that the user says "I _did_ move file
> A to file B" (I never got the Linus' argument that the user has no idea
> - he just _performed_ the move, also explicitly, by calling *mv).
> 
> However, I guess the explicit movement tracking completely fails if you
> go sub-file (without being extremely bothersome for the user) - you
> would have to have control over the editor and the clipboard and even
> then I'm not sure if you could reach any sensible results.

If I remember correctly there are some problems if the explicit file-level contents movement tracking (aka. file rename tracking) is done via equivalent of file-id, inodes, or persistent names. Although it works for many (most?) cases.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland