Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley@utoronto.ca> writes:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>>> You'll note we referred to that bevhavior on the page.  We don't think
>>> what Git does is the same as supporting renames.  AIUI, some Git users
>>> feel the same way.
>> 
>> Oh, we start another flamewar again?
>
> I'd hope not.  It sounds as though you feel that supporting renames in
> the data representation is *wrong*, and therefore it should be an insult
> to you if we said that Git fully supported renames.

Not recording and not supporting are quite different things.

What we don't do is to _record_ renames in the data structure.
I personally would not use a word as strong as _wrong_ (and
Linus may disagree), but (1) we can support renames without
recording them just fine, (2) recording renames would not help
to tell users about line movements across files which we would
want to do, and (3) we are getting closer to come up with a way
to even do (2) without recording renames.  Given these, perhaps
I might say recording renames is _pointless_ when I am in good
mood.


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