Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git wiki

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: 2006-05-06 23:37:47
Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Petr Baudis wrote:

>> If you use persistent file ids, you never miss it _AND_ you DO NOT WALK
>> THE COMMIT CHAIN! You still just match file ids in the two trees.
> 
> Let not jump to the one of the possible solution. The detecting and noting
> renames and content moving (with user interaction) at commit is nice...
> unless does something which cannot allow interactiveness (like applying
> patchbomb), but even then detecting and saving info at commit would be
> good idea.
> 
> What we need is to for two given linked revisions (with a path between
> them) to easily extract information about renames (content moving).
> Perhaps using additional structure... best if we could do this without
> walking the chain. The rest is details... ;-P

Or rather structure, which for given file F in given revision A, for given
other revision B would tell ALL the files in the revision B which are
source of contents (via history/commit tree) of the file F.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland

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