Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2019, #04; Tue, 15)

[Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 6:25 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> * en/merge-recursive-directory-rename-fixes (2019-10-12) 2 commits
> >>   (merged to 'next' on 2019-10-15 at ebfdc3ff7b)
> >>  + merge-recursive: fix merging a subdirectory into the root directory
> >>  + merge-recursive: clean up get_renamed_dir_portion()
> >>
> >>  A few glitches in the heuristic in merge-recursive to infer file
> >>  movements based on movements of other files in the same directory
> >>  have been corrected.
> >>
> >>  Will merge to 'master'.
> >
> > I'm surprised this one was merged straight down to next; perhaps I
> > should have highlighted my plans a bit clearer in the thread?
>
> My mistake.  I am willing to revert the merge to give the topic a
> clean slate.  Just tell me so.

Yeah, let's revert it.

> > Also, a very minor point but "glitches" may be misleading; it suggests
> > (to me at least) a malfunction rather than a failure to trigger,...
>
> I used the word to mean a failure to trigger (after all, a heuristic
> that fails to trigger when most people would naturelly expect it to
> is showing a glitch in that case).  A better phrasing, please?

Oh, I guess I just had a different connotation for glitch.  I guess
what you had is fine then, but alternatively we could spell it out
just a little more:

When all files from some subdirectory were renamed to the root
directory, the directory rename heuristics would fail to detect that
as a rename/merge of the subdirectory to the root directory, which has
been corrected.