On Sat, 09 Feb 2008, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > On Saturday 09 February 2008 18:22:17 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > BTW Carlos, sending a git diff would have resulted in much smaller diffs > > (since git diff can do renames instead of add/delete) :) I believe all of > > us can deal just fine with git diffs, so it makes sense to use them in > > these cases. > > I don't quite know what you mean here - experimenting in a tree here, > git-diff > doesn't produce any noticeable difference after using git-mv - unless this is > a bug with StackedGit being unable to handle renames/ moves properly?
Randy sent you a much better email than mine about it, but here it goes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/f$ git init Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/f$ cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log . [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/f$ git add . [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/f$ git commit -m "initial commit" Created initial commit 4e5f9c4: initial commit 1 files changed, 1260 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Xorg.0.log [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/f$ git mv Xorg.0.log Xorg.1.log [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/f$ git commit -m "move commit" Created commit ed5f8d0: move commit 2 files changed, 1260 insertions(+), 1260 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Xorg.0.log create mode 100644 Xorg.1.log [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/f$ git diff HEAD^.. -M diff --git a/Xorg.0.log b/Xorg.1.log similarity index 100% rename from Xorg.0.log rename to Xorg.1.log The key is that -M (or -C for that matter). To be even more clear: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/f$ git diff HEAD^.. | wc 2532 20098 134766 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/f$ git diff HEAD^.. -M | wc 4 13 103 So I really should have mentioned -M when I talked about git diffs :-( -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
