From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase docs: fix incorrect format of the section Behavioral Differences
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 22:16:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd67cd33-dbe8-03a0-e760-c7bb23854084@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BHzESYnQy5JwXvtXyLHgHR9u3UNVOZF2gU1m_uTMGkyfg@mail.gmail.com>
Am 05.12.18 um 16:37 schrieb Elijah Newren:
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:40 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:
>>
>>> Please let me deposit my objection. This paragraph is not the right
>>> place to explain what directory renme detection is and how it works
>>> under the hood. "works fine" in the original text is the right phrase
>>> here; if there is concern that this induces expectations that cannot
>>> be met, throw in the word "heuristics".
>>>
>>> Such as:
>>> Directory rename heuristics work fine in the merge and interactive
>>> backends. It does not in the am backend because...
>>
>> OK, good enough, I guess. Or just s/work fine/is enabled/.
>
> So...
>
> Directory rename heuristics are enabled in the merge and interactive
> backends. They are not in the am backend because it operates on
> "fake ancestors" that involve trees containing only the files modified
> in the patch. Due to the lack of accurate tree information, directory
> rename detection is disabled for the am backend.
OK with me. And also if you drop sentence no.2 and keep just no.1 and no.3.
Thanks,
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-05 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-03 17:34 [PATCH] rebase docs: fix incorrect format of the section Behavioral Differences Johannes Sixt
2018-12-03 20:42 ` Martin Ågren
2018-12-03 20:50 ` Johannes Sixt
2018-12-04 2:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-03 20:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-12-04 21:24 ` Elijah Newren
2018-12-04 21:53 ` Johannes Sixt
2018-12-04 23:17 ` Elijah Newren
2018-12-05 3:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-05 6:20 ` Elijah Newren
2018-12-05 6:57 ` Johannes Sixt
2018-12-05 7:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-05 15:37 ` Elijah Newren
2018-12-05 21:16 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2018-12-05 22:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-07 17:51 ` [PATCH] git-rebase.txt: update note about directory rename detection and am Johannes Sixt
2018-12-07 18:46 ` Elijah Newren
2018-12-09 0:22 ` Junio C Hamano
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