From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Subject: Re: Handling renames.
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:46:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1113518810.12012.256.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0504141758310.30848-100000@iabervon.org>
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 18:23 -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> I personally think renames are a minor thing that doesn't happen
> much. What actually happens, in my opinion, is that some chunk of a
> file is moved to a different, possibly new, file. If this is supported
> (as something that the SCM notices), then a rename is just a special
> case where the moved chunk is a whole file.
Certainly we'd discussed the possibility that the 'rename' field may
contain more than one destination, or more than one source filename.
This could happen when a file is split into two, or when two files are
merged into one, for example.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-14 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-14 17:54 Handling renames David Woodhouse
2005-04-14 18:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 19:09 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-14 18:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-14 18:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 18:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-14 19:20 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-14 19:21 ` David Mansfield
2005-04-14 18:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 18:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 18:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 19:22 ` Zach Welch
2005-04-14 19:40 ` Andrew Timberlake-Newell
2005-04-14 20:42 ` Naming the SCM (was Re: Handling renames.) Steven Cole
2005-04-14 20:53 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-14 20:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 21:01 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-14 23:17 ` Peter Williams
2005-04-14 22:23 ` Handling renames Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-14 22:46 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-15 13:37 linux
2005-04-15 13:53 ` David Woodhouse
2005-10-21 23:40 git-rev-list: add "--dense" flag Linus Torvalds
2005-10-22 0:37 ` Petr Baudis
2005-10-22 0:47 ` Handling renames Petr Baudis
2005-10-22 1:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-22 1:51 ` Petr Baudis
2005-10-22 2:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-22 2:49 ` Petr Baudis
2005-10-22 3:23 ` Linus Torvalds
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