Re: Re: more git updates..

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Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 07:53:40AM CEST, I got a letter
where Christopher Li <[email protected]> told me that...
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:51:59AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > But I am wondering what your plans are to handle renames---or
> > does git already represent them?
> >
> 
> Rename should just work.  It will create a new tree object and you
> will notice that in the entry that changed, the hash for the blob
> object is the same.

Which is of course wrong when you want to do proper merging, examine
per-file history, etc. One solution which springs to my mind is to have
a UUID accompany each blob and tree; that will take relatively lot of
space though, and I'm not sure it is really worth it.

How many renames were there in the 64k commits so far anyway?

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
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