Petr Baudis wrote: > The automatic vs. explicit movement tracking is a lot more > controversial. Explicit movement tracking is pretty easy to provide for > file-level movements, it's just that the user says "I _did_ move file > A to file B" (I never got the Linus' argument that the user has no idea > - he just _performed_ the move, also explicitly, by calling *mv). > > However, I guess the explicit movement tracking completely fails if you > go sub-file (without being extremely bothersome for the user) - you > would have to have control over the editor and the clipboard and even > then I'm not sure if you could reach any sensible results. If I remember correctly there are some problems if the explicit file-level contents movement tracking (aka. file rename tracking) is done via equivalent of file-id, inodes, or persistent names. Although it works for many (most?) cases. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat May 06 04:29:10 2006
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