Re: git-mv redux: there must be something else going on

From: Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com>
Date: Feb 4, 2010, 00:10 UTC
Message-ID: <ron1-C4BB38.16101603022010@news.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <76718491002031555i2c1558f9qe0c97d07ceb86bb6@mail.gmail.com>

In article 
<76718491002031555i2c1558f9qe0c97d07ceb86bb6@mail.gmail.com>,
 Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
> > More about this: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=114123702826251
> 
> I think the canonical email on the subject is this one:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/217
>

The upshot seems to be this:

> And that "where did this come from" decision should be done at _search_ 
> time, not commit time.

And I'm mostly convinced, except for the one screw case that I outlined above. In that case the search-time result is ambiguous, and file tracking information could be used to resolve the ambiguity. But it certainly does seem like a rare enough situation that it's not worth worrying about.

I think I'm starting to git it :-)

rg