From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:08:51 -0500 Message-ID: References: <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> <7c7503b4-1f82-8a25-fedd-c61c3e7629f6@cs.ucla.edu> <83zi5o6w4p.fsf@gnu.org> <745d2f02-8ca3-8962-0de4-053340c8fa63@cs.ucla.edu> <83efmx6862.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515708991 9669 195.159.176.226 (11 Jan 2018 22:16:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 22:16:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 11 23:16:27 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 1eZl98-00028S-AT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:16:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47023 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZlB7-0002B7-V5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:18:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39511) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZl24-0003Br-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:09:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZl20-0003tm-PW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:09:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=37231 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZl20-0003t7-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:09:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eZkzu-0007Ej-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:06:54 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:rArAu7IRD6fck8kG1pCxk/ZRMjM= 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:221861 Archived-At: > Don't forget that this requires an easy access to the diffs, which in > practice means a Git repository nearby. FWIW, I think we should design the system for the case where the user *does* have the VCS history at hand. Those users who don't have the VCS history available are by definition at a disadvantage but we don't need to do anything special to help them, since there's already a trivial solution for that (i.e. getting the VCS history). It's perfectly OK for someone to decide to hack on Emacs starting from a tarball rather than from a Git tree, but then this user gets what he asked for. Stefan