From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:06:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t4202 (log): add failing test for log with subtree
Message-ID: <vpqr4i2z35n.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <87zjwqpebl.fsf@hexa.v.cablecom.net>

Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> writes:

> So how can we fix that?  We could try to somehow figure out that M:sub/
> refers to the same thing as M^2:/, by looking at them at the tree level.
> Let's provisionally call this --follow-tree-rename.

There was a patch serie long ago that implemented directory rename
detection:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/163328

I'm not sure why it hasn't been merged.

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/