Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261458AbVDJJnV (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 05:43:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261461AbVDJJnU (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 05:43:20 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:36564 "HELO machine.sinus.cz") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261458AbVDJJlz (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 05:41:55 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:41:53 +0200 From: Petr Baudis To: Christopher Li Cc: Junio C Hamano , Linus Torvalds , "Randy.Dunlap" , Ross Vandegrift , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Re: more git updates.. Message-ID: <20050410094153.GA26537@pasky.ji.cz> References: <20050409200709.GC3451@pasky.ji.cz> <7vhdifcbmo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20050410055340.GB13853@64m.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050410055340.GB13853@64m.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1151 Lines: 28 Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 07:53:40AM CEST, I got a letter where Christopher Li told me that... > On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:51:59AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > But I am wondering what your plans are to handle renames---or > > does git already represent them? > > > > Rename should just work. It will create a new tree object and you > will notice that in the entry that changed, the hash for the blob > object is the same. Which is of course wrong when you want to do proper merging, examine per-file history, etc. One solution which springs to my mind is to have a UUID accompany each blob and tree; that will take relatively lot of space though, and I'm not sure it is really worth it. How many renames were there in the 64k commits so far anyway? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ 98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/