Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git wiki

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: May 6, 2006, 07:33 UTC
Message-ID: <e3hjfk$bjn$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90605052353m2d2aca11weac7efee80c6fb35@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff wrote:

> On 5/6/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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>>> Try doing
>>>
>>> git diff v1.3.0..
>>>
>>> and think about what that actually _means_. Think about the fact that it
>>> doesn't actually walk the commit chain at all: it diffs the trees
>>> between v1.3.0 and the current one. What if the rename happened in a
>>> commit in the middle?
>>
>> Then the automated renames detection will miss it given that the other
>> accumulated differences are large enough, and the suggested workarounds
>> _are_ precisely walking the commit chain.
> 
> I agree here with Pasky that after a while the automated
> renames/copy/splitup detection will miss the operation in cases where
> it would be interesting to note it to the user.

Perhaps an option to do rename detection with walking the commit chain?

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland