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From: Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@...>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@...>
Cc: <git@...>
Subject: Re: Adding Git to Better SCM Initiative : Comparison
Date: Monday, December 10, 2007 - 12:50 pm

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 03:49:39PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:

ISTM that people are stuck using less than helpful criteria for
judging whether renames are supported.  Namely, in effect, they ask:
"Does the user get to do extra work in order to get rename-detection?"

Let me humbly suggest an alternate, two-fold, very practical criteria
that I actually care about as a user:

1) If I edit file A, while another developer renames file A to B, and
I merge my work with his, do I have to clean things up myself, or does
everything Just Work?

2) If I'm browsing the history of some code in a renamed file, does
the history continue through the rename?

By these criteria, git certainly does support renames.

-chris
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Adding Git to Better SCM Initiative : Comparison, Jakub Narebski, (Mon Dec 10, 8:57 am)
Re: Adding Git to Better SCM Initiative : Comparison, Florian Weimer, (Mon Dec 10, 10:49 am)
Re: Adding Git to Better SCM Initiative : Comparison, Chris Shoemaker, (Mon Dec 10, 12:50 pm)
Re: Adding Git to Better SCM Initiative : Comparison, Jakub Narebski, (Mon Dec 10, 1:21 pm)
Re: Adding Git to Better SCM Initiative : Comparison, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Dec 10, 12:38 pm)
Re: Adding Git to Better SCM Initiative : Comparison, Jakub Narebski, (Mon Dec 10, 11:47 am)
Re: Adding Git to Better SCM Initiative : Comparison, Florian Weimer, (Mon Dec 10, 12:28 pm)
Re: Adding Git to Better SCM Initiative : Comparison, Johannes Schindelin, (Mon Dec 10, 11:23 am)
Re: Adding Git to Better SCM Initiative : Comparison, Florian Weimer, (Mon Dec 10, 11:36 am)
Re: Adding Git to Better SCM Initiative : Comparison, David Kastrup, (Mon Dec 10, 10:33 am)
Re: Adding Git to Better SCM Initiative : Comparison, Eyvind Bernhardsen, (Mon Dec 10, 9:09 am)
Re: Adding Git to Better SCM Initiative : Comparison, Jakub Narebski, (Mon Dec 10, 9:20 am)