From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: "Michał Łowicki" <mlowicki@gmail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: gsoc - Better git log --follow support
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:12:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vk4fpemei.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110323170655.GA4392@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:06:55 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
> Obviously a solution that always provides an exact right answer is
> preferable to "pretty good results", but we'd have to keep in mind the
> performance difference.
And that is why the current --follow hack was declared to be good enough
to give "pretty good results" by its inventor, no?
I still agree with it personally, and if we _were_ to improve it out of
"hack" status, we should aim to do the right thing (provided if there is a
"right thing" exists).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-23 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-19 19:24 gsoc - Better git log --follow support Michał Łowicki
2011-03-19 21:57 ` GSoC - Better "git log --follow" support Jakub Narebski
2011-03-21 12:24 ` gsoc - Better git log --follow support Jeff King
2011-03-22 23:23 ` Michał Łowicki
2011-03-23 16:20 ` Jeff King
2011-03-23 16:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-23 17:06 ` Jeff King
2011-03-23 18:12 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-03-23 18:22 ` Jeff King
2011-04-13 21:04 ` Michał Łowicki
2011-04-15 4:06 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-15 19:41 ` Michał Łowicki
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