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From: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>, frysk@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [SCM]  master: Rename Linux Host/Proc/Task to Linux Core/Ptrace   Host/Proc/Task.
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47821DAB.1060408@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080103205630.128A126F9A0@magilla.localdomain>

Roland McGrath wrote:
> 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.
>   

Well that jolly well rots. ;) So in future then to preserve log history 
a mv should be its own commit, and only the rename should be the commit.

Regards

Phil

      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-07 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080103045553.11108.qmail@sourceware.org>
2008-01-03 10:23 ` Phil Muldoon
2008-01-03 20:49   ` Andrew Cagney
2008-01-03 21:00     ` Roland McGrath
2008-01-07 12:40       ` Phil Muldoon [this message]

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