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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change to bzr build instructions
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:04:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aagj349j.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83fwqbtthq.fsf@gnu.org

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
>> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:24:50 -0400
>> 
>> 
>> The autotools generated files such as configure are no longer present
>> in the repository in the trunk.
>
> Why were these files deleted and then created anew in autogen/?  Why
> not "bzr mv" them instead?  Do we really want to lose their history?

One thing that makes sense about git: moving files is exactly the same
as deleting and recreating them.  History is reconstructed on the fly
when you ask for it and tracks the contents, not the file names (though
they provide starting points for he heuristics).  So you don't depend on
the programmer telling the system how content moved about.

-- 
David Kastrup




  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-25 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-21  0:24 Change to bzr build instructions Glenn Morris
2011-03-21  0:46 ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-21 16:06 ` Jim Meyering
2011-03-21 22:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-22  3:31   ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-22  5:42     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-22  7:16       ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-22  8:08         ` Jim Meyering
2011-03-22  9:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-23  3:15   ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-22 11:36 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-03-22 13:09 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-03-22 18:37   ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-25  9:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-25 10:04   ` David Kastrup [this message]
2011-03-25 10:18     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-25 11:44       ` Leo
2011-03-25 13:07         ` David Kastrup
2011-03-25 13:13         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-25 13:52           ` David Kastrup
2011-03-25 16:02             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-25 13:45         ` Andreas Röhler
2011-03-27 18:54           ` Davis Herring
2011-03-25 14:37         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-25 15:03           ` David Kastrup
2011-03-25 15:16             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-25 15:32               ` David Kastrup
2011-03-25 16:08             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-25 19:55         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-28  1:11           ` Miles Bader

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