From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Renaming files with git not all that bad?
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 13:35:18 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8X4XxXyU6LyooEBW4QsuKUKcGgV-vwW2L-Axv3bvGjg5g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878rwuia7g.fsf@gnu.org>
On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 at 13:06, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
> Couldn't the same effect be achieved in a simpler manner by copying the
> original file N times in one commit and then stripping the copies and
> original down to what they should eventually become? (AFAIK, git has no
> problem detecting literal copies.)
Indeed, I tried this and it works for me, as long as the first commit
is only literal copies. Maybe Git’s ancestry detection through copies
was not as advanced in the unspecified times when Raymond invented his
technique.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-09 6:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-08 21:50 Splitting image-dired.el into smaller files Stefan Kangas
2021-12-08 22:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-08 22:54 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-09 1:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-09 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-09 13:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-09 14:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-27 21:26 ` Mathias Dahl
2021-12-09 3:20 ` Renaming files with git not all that bad? Stefan Kangas
2021-12-09 3:56 ` Phil Sainty
2021-12-09 8:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-12-09 9:00 ` tomas
2021-12-09 9:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-09 13:57 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-09 5:40 ` Yuri Khan
2021-12-09 6:02 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-12-09 6:35 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2021-12-09 7:04 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-12-09 7:28 ` Yuri Khan
2021-12-09 22:03 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-10 12:28 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-12-11 12:11 ` Yuri Khan
2021-12-09 14:55 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-09 15:50 ` tomas
2021-12-09 22:18 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-10 8:17 ` tomas
2022-08-21 0:56 ` Splitting image-dired.el into smaller files Stefan Kangas
2022-08-21 5:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-21 14:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-08-21 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-21 15:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-08-21 15:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-21 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-21 15:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-21 17:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-08-23 19:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-08-23 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-23 19:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-08-21 16:20 ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-22 13:08 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-08-22 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
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