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From: Pal-Kristian Engstad <pal_engstad@naughtydog•com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic•net>
Cc: Simon Hausmann <simon@lst•de>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>,
	"git@vger•kernel.org" <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-p4: default submit to use rename detection
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:01:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B59150A.8000002@naughtydog.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001212139540.1726@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Pal-Kristian Engstad wrote:
> 
>> Enable git's rename detection by default. This is needed to preserve
>> Perforce's history.
>>
>> Removed the '-M' flag and added a '--no-detect' flag to preserve the
>> old behavior.
> 
> You should keep the -M flag, even if it ends up doing nothing, for 
> backward compatibility.  And --no-detect is really a bad flag name.  
> Maybe --no-detect-renames instead?

I'm not sure if git-p4 wants to keep backwards compatibility. I doubt there's
many scripts out there that calls git-p4, but Simon should decide.

I have no problem with the --no-detect-renames flag, though.

PKE.
-- 
Pål-Kristian Engstad (engstad@naughtydog•com), 
Lead Graphics & Engine Programmer,
Naughty Dog, Inc., 1601 Cloverfield Blvd, 6000 North,
Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA. Ph.: (310) 633-9112.

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 a halfway-decent text editor." -- Slashdot, Dec 13. 2005.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-01-22  3:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-22  2:03 [PATCH 1/3] git-p4: default submit to use rename detection Pal-Kristian Engstad
2010-01-22  2:42 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-01-22  3:01   ` Pal-Kristian Engstad [this message]

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