From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Renaming files with git not all that bad?
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 14:03:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmnME3xrzyPwFyCHWBE6n3LyvTYwCpJ4LE3_ZedKyb2OzQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8X4XxXyU6LyooEBW4QsuKUKcGgV-vwW2L-Axv3bvGjg5g@mail.gmail.com>
Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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.
I'm having no luck with this.
Could you describe the exact steps you took?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-09 22:03 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
2021-12-09 7:04 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-12-09 7:28 ` Yuri Khan
2021-12-09 22:03 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
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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