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: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 00:20:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <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> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1514870391 23207 195.159.176.226 (2 Jan 2018 05:19:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 05:19:51 +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 Tue Jan 02 06:19:47 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 1eWEzF-0005I7-O3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 06:19:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57601 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWF1D-0004Cg-4H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 00:21:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46257) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWF0a-0004CB-PA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 00:21:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWF0X-0004Rs-Hd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 00:21:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41144 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWF0X-0004Qs-9q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 00:21:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eWEyU-0002Vk-2j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 06:18:54 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:PZGLhS980DqB0FkUg8rDNGttDus= 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:221525 Archived-At: > (well,.. except for inconsistent support across git commands and > missing tool support, that is...). That's the main problem, in my experience. E.g. try to use `C-x v ~` or something similar to extract an old version of a file FOO (old enough that the file was named BAR at that point). For extra credit, do that when some *other* file exists with name FOO in that old revision . Stefan