Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle

From: Aaron Bentley <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:47:27 -0400

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> 
>>All solutions have disadvantages.  We prefer the disadvantages that come
>>from using file-ids over the disadvantages that come from using
>>content-based rename detection.
> 
> 
> That's fine, but please don't call the git rename handling "maybe" or 
> "partial", like a lot of people seem to do. 
> 
> Git _definitely_ handles renames, both in everyday life and when merging.

Hmm.  Could you say more here?  The only examples I can think of for
handling renames are situations that can be expressed as a merge.

For example, populating a working tree can be expressed as:
BASE: nothing
THIS: nothing
OTHER: aabbccddee

Or revert can be expressed as

BASE: current
THIS: current
OTHER: aabbccddee

Or fast-forward pull

BASE: last-commit
THIS: current
OTHER: aabbccddee

Aaron