From: Jakub Narebski Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:21:32 GMT Subject: Re: problem with git detecting proper renames Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Kumar Gala wrote: >> >> I did some git-mv and got the following: >> >> the problem is git seems confused about what file was associated with its >> source. > > Well, I wouldn't say "confused". It found multiple identical options for > the source, and picked the first one (where "first one" may not be obvious > to a human, it can depend on an internal hash order). By the way, which git version do you use? IIRC we have improved rename detection heuristics to take into account similarity of filenames when contents is identical... ...ah, I see, it is git 1.5.3.4 -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git