On Tue, 9 Feb 2016, Ingo Molnar wrote: > see for example how Git still knows that we had a > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c initial file name. > > Or how you did an optimization in c48b60538c3ba when the file was already > named > cpu/perf_event.c! :-)
yes, for simple renames it works, but once files start getting "reorganized" and split up it gets tricky. For example trying to track things across the single perf_event.h to the separate perf_event.h files after the UAPI split is always a pain. But anyway, it sounds like the renames are being done for reasonably good reasons, it's just the tip commit message that came my way didn't have this extra context. Thanks, Vince
