From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 20:57:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] t6042: work around speed optimization on Windows
Message-ID: <xmqqo98fm27r.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <55b0a641d4cd3af37806300e10be36925716e86b.1547713759.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
writes:

> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>
> When Git determines whether a file has changed, it looks at the mtime,
> at the file size, ...
> Functionally, we do not change anything because we replace two `git mv
> <old> <new>` calls (where `<new>` is completely overwritten and `git
> add`ed later anyway) by `git rm <old>` calls (removing other files, too,
> that are also completely overwritten and `git add`ed later).

Thanks, both.  Will queue.