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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase docs: fix incorrect format of the section Behavioral Differences
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 07:46:41 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmupjbnhq.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd67cd33-dbe8-03a0-e760-c7bb23854084@kdbg.org> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Wed, 5 Dec 2018 22:16:27 +0100")

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

> 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.

Yeah, that shorter version may be sufficient to explain why we do
not use the heuristics in the "am" backend.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-05 22:46 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
2018-12-05 22:46                   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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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