From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31331 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2008 21:00:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 31318 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Jan 2008 21:00:06 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_FAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (HELO QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net) (76.96.30.96) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:56:34 +0000 Received: from OMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.12]) by QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id YhoX1Y00L0FhH24A90LC00; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:56:32 +0000 Received: from gateway.sf.frob.com ([67.160.211.197]) by OMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id YkwS1Y00A4G5f4b8U00000; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:56:27 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=tA8rGbDq1doA:10 a=RYFLW6ebtpNBegQnzZ7X4w==:17 a=vQ7ikfJxmvTfPZ7OS6EA:9 a=W1mTVZTW3YyxZU0qJBsA:7 a=YdDhV4WrnNXwktswSbjSVDIdbbQA:4 a=me1CeiWLvBEA:10 Received: from magilla.localdomain (magilla.sf.frob.com [198.49.250.228]) by gateway.sf.frob.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B067357B; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:56:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by magilla.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 5281) id 128A126F9A0; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:56:30 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Phil Muldoon , frysk@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [SCM] master: Rename Linux Host/Proc/Task to Linux Core/Ptrace Host/Proc/Task. In-Reply-To: Andrew Cagney's message of Thursday, 3 January 2008 15:44:49 -0500 <477D4941.7050202@redhat.com> References: <20080103045553.11108.qmail@sourceware.org> <477CB65D.3040806@redhat.com> <477D4941.7050202@redhat.com> Emacs: because you deserve a brk today. Message-Id: <20080103205630.128A126F9A0@magilla.localdomain> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:00:00 -0000 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact frysk-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: frysk-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q1/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 git-mv does not do anything special, in fact. GIT's support for file renaming is just implicit detection, not explicit markers from user action. So, what matters is doing a commit that removes file A and adds file B, where A and B have completely identical contents (matching sha1sum). To preserve history, you have to carefully do a commit that only renames, and then a commit that touches the contents of the file. Thanks, Roland