From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support) (Was: The name gnus-cloud.el) Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2018 20:15:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87bmj6dda0.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <87vahe911g.fsf@lifelogs.com> <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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1514856402 20571 195.159.176.226 (2 Jan 2018 01:26:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 01:26:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Steinar Bang Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 02 02:26:38 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 1eWBLa-0004Xu-AK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 02:26:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51183 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWBNZ-0006LW-9w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jan 2018 20:28:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38737) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWBBY-0005yY-B8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jan 2018 20:16:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWBBW-0008Iw-Hi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jan 2018 20:16:07 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43805) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWBBA-00082D-Vi; Mon, 01 Jan 2018 20:15:45 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eWBB4-0007cc-9t; Mon, 01 Jan 2018 20:15:38 -0500 In-reply-to: <86shbprix7.fsf_-_@dod.no> (message from Steinar Bang on Mon, 01 Jan 2018 11:07:48 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:221523 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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 ??? If so, good thing we had change log files, eh? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.