Re: Locations of Tests

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>:
>> On 4 Nov 2015 5:53 pm, "John Wiegley" <jwiegley@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> I'd happily accept a patch to move things into accordance with the naming
>>> structure under lisp/.
>
>> Same here. Just make sure it doesn't mess up git blame. ;-)
>
> ...and file history.
>
> What this means in practice, is that files should be moved verbatim.
>
> You can change files once they are in place in the new location, but the
> first commit in the new location should be of files with identical SHA1
> hashes as the files in the old location.
>
> git tracks history across moves/renames by matching the file content
> SHA1 hashes of files in other locations.

That's what always works, but git blame's -C option will try getting
stuff matched even if you don't properly rename.  But -C is expensive.
And it's always a nuisance to supply the like of C-x v g with additional
options.

-- 
David Kastrup