Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch performance with large trees

[Catalin Marinas]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> I think this tool generates "real" renames, and seem to show up on
> bkbits.net -- e.g., if you look at the diffs for a changeset, you'll
> see a file patch where the before and after names are different.
[...]
> --- 1.12/drivers/serial/nb85e_uart.c  2005-02-05 00:37:24 -08:00
> +++ 1.13/drivers/serial/v850e_uart.c  2005-02-05 00:37:24 -08:00

Ah, I thought I would see something like old_file -> new_file in the
log. The patch available through BKCVS (and
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/user=miles/address@hidden)
does a full delete/add of these files so the information would need to
be retrieved from bkbits.net. Larry McVoy stated that it is OK to
retrieve some meta information but not the patch itself. You would
actually need to access the file diff from bkbits.net to get this
information (it is true that you only do this if you have a pair of
removed/added files, so he might accept this but it probably needs to
be asked first).

Catalin