From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, palves@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Renaming .c files to .cc?
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 03:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838snjbkqm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPTJ0XEXR2Kb9CU1j17g9VE9fU07xsWHJSk4QiD1ma47F1TSsA@mail.gmail.com> (gdb@sourceware.org)
> From: "Christian Biesinger via gdb" <gdb@sourceware.org>
> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:18:58 -0500
>
> On IRC it was mentioned that git may have issues with renames like
> that but I have found that "git log --follow" and such are doing a
> good job with that, at least as long as the same commit doesn't change
> the file too much while it is renamed, which I wouldn't expect to be a
> problem here.
Not every Git command has a --follow option, so renaming files does
have disadvantages in that area.
Also, even with --follow, Git's tracking of renaming is heuristics,
so it can fail.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-11 3:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-10 22:19 Christian Biesinger via gdb
2019-12-11 0:42 ` Luis Machado
2019-12-11 1:27 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb
2019-12-11 1:33 ` Luis Machado
2019-12-11 2:24 ` Simon Marchi
2019-12-11 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-12-11 23:00 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb
2019-12-12 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-14 18:20 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb
2019-12-11 10:59 ` Pedro Alves
2019-12-11 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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