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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Cc: Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>,
	Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Igor Djordjevic <igor.d.djordjevic@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to keep log history when renaming and changing simultaneously
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 20:20:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqr30qflk9.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xpWMdoQj5FxkN=7QKc3UvW77HsTDs5RRZiCg4WVnB4wqA@mail.gmail.com> (Jacob Keller's message of "Mon, 17 Apr 2017 18:15:42 -0700")

Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:

> Unfortunately I don't have a ready link to the message, but there is a
> very good post from early on in Git's development where Linus explains
> why Git does not store rename and copy information in the history.

One of the most important message in the list archive, gmane:217 aka

http://public-inbox.org/git/Pine.LNX.4.58.0504150753440.7211@ppc970.osdl.org/


      reply	other threads:[~2017-04-18  3:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-17 11:36 How to keep log history when renaming and changing simultaneously Urs Thuermann
2017-04-17 12:17 ` Duy Nguyen
2017-04-17 20:34 ` Igor Djordjevic
2017-04-17 21:36   ` Urs Thuermann
2017-04-18  1:15     ` Jacob Keller
2017-04-18  3:20       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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