# git documentation 3 messages from 2009-01-06 to 2009-01-06. Participants: david@lang.hm, Jakub Narebski, Miklos Vajna. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17000 ## Jakub Narebski, 2009-01-06 01:07 Subject: Re: git documentation Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m33afxb5tw.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: ``` David Lang writes: > On lwn there is a comment (under the GNOME survey topic) > http://lwn.net/Articles/313435/ > > The Shlomi Fish "Better SCM" site for example is very clear that Git > won't do a merge across a rename. It even has a citation for this > claim. But as a Git user who has actually done a merge across a rename > I know it works just fine, and anyone familiar with Git's internals > will guess immediately why. Yet probably there is no line of > documentation on the Git site or elsewhere that I can quote to justify > adding a "Yes" to the comparison. I have tried to add info about Git to Better SCM quite a long time ago; it was finally added by (IIRC) Alexey Mahotkin for http://versioncontrolblog.com and sent for inclusion in Better SCM to Shlomi Fish. Unfortunately it contains some factual errors. I have sent corrections to Alexey, but didn't finish it: "Git at Better SCM Initiative comparison of VCS (long)" http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/97253 (see also other posts in this thread, and other posts with the same, or similar, subject on git mailing list). -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git ``` ## Miklos Vajna, 2009-01-06 01:46 Subject: Re: git documentation Message-ID: <20090106014622.GA21154@genesis.frugalware.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090106014622.GA21154%40genesis.frugalware.org In-Reply-To: ``` On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:46:56PM -0800, david@lang.hm wrote: > why. Yet probably there is no line of documentation on the Git site or > elsewhere that I can quote to justify adding a "Yes" to the comparison. I think it's documented in Documentation/merge-strategies.txt, under the 'recursive' merge strategy: "Additionally this can detect and handle merges involving renames." ``` ## david@lang.hm, 2009-01-06 01:46 Subject: git documentation Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.DEB.1.10.0901051745280.28514%40asgard.lang.hm ``` on lwn there is a comment (under the GNOME survey topic) http://lwn.net/Articles/313435/ The Shlomi Fish "Better SCM" site for example is very clear that Git won't do a merge across a rename. It even has a citation for this claim. But as a Git user who has actually done a merge across a rename I know it works just fine, and anyone familiar with Git's internals will guess immediately why. Yet probably there is no line of documentation on the Git site or elsewhere that I can quote to justify adding a "Yes" to the comparison. sounds like a missing piece of documentation that someone should be able to fill in fairly easily. David Lang ```