Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Maintainership, and whiners...

[Adrian Irving-Beer]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 07:50:55AM +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> No -- GIT doesn't only look for a filename match, that'd be naive.
> Once it finds teh file, it tries to figure out if it's the same one
> (SHA1 matches or a high similarity index). Same for identifying the
> rename: it looks for new files in that commit with a high similarity
> index.

Ah, joy, so it makes an educated guess instead.

I fail to understand why the developers would go to such great lengths
to develop fuzzy matching, which is *going* to fail by definition in
certain circumstances, just to avoid adding a single command where the
user explicitly records a rename and gets 100% accuracy.

If the only solutions out there are going to make a policy of assuming
I'm that lazy and trying to second-guess my every move, then thanks,
but no thanks.  I'll pass on the silver hammers until someone comes up
with a (better) real toolset.

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