On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:41:53AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 07:53:40AM CEST, I got a letter
> where Christopher Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that...
> > On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:51:59AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > 
> > > But I am wondering what your plans are to handle renames---or
> > > does git already represent them?
> > >
> > 
> > Rename should just work.  It will create a new tree object and you
> > will notice that in the entry that changed, the hash for the blob
> > object is the same.
> 
> Which is of course wrong when you want to do proper merging, examine
> per-file history, etc. One solution which springs to my mind is to have
> a UUID accompany each blob and tree; that will take relatively lot of
> space though, and I'm not sure it is really worth it.

It should just use the rename + change two step then it is tractable
with git now.

Chris
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