From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support) Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 23:04:02 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <86y3lfq5nx.fsf@dod.no> References: <87374id7jy.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <877ett8g7k.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87a7yn7tqp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878te75xa1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ind6l2tt.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877etklvsa.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83y3m0pv8u.fsf@gnu.org> <86608msw0h.fsf@dod.no> <838tdiet25.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3li4vh7.fsf@telefonica.net> <87efnan46u.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <86wp12qtgo.fsf@dod.no> <83tvw6chqv.fsf@gnu.org> <86shbprix7.fsf_-_@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1514930549 21401 195.159.176.226 (2 Jan 2018 22:02:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 22:02:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (windows-nt) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 02 23:02:25 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eWUda-000588-Qu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 23:02:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57095 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWUfZ-00075E-Vn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:04:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32806) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWUfT-00074w-Et for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:04:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWUfQ-0001op-Nu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:04:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33971 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWUfQ-0001lx-GW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:04:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eWUdL-0004BA-S2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 23:02:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:EbH7b4jqzRnQrEfwrGuYu6Z3ovo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:221540 Archived-At: >>>>> Richard Stallman : >> If the result you pointed at is the case for all bzr moves converted to >> git, then history tracking was lost at that point, and there isn't >> really anything to do about it. > Was the whole history of our repository lost at that time ??? No commits in the history of the repositor would have been lost. But tracking the history of a file through renames would not be present. (note that one wouldn't be worse off by this, than the regular state of things in CVS)