From: merlyn@stonehenge•com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl•org>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: file rename causes history to disappear
Date: 06 Sep 2006 14:45:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bqpsvfd3.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vmz9c7pzm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net> writes:
Junio> The only people who will get burnt by this change are the ones
Junio> with metacharacters in their pathnames, so it is relative safe
Junio> change.
But does that mean you'll provide the equivalent to "fgrep" for "grep",
as in a switch that turns this off, or a seperate command?
I can think of times when I might be trying to track a file with a square
bracket in the name.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-06 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-06 14:52 file rename causes history to disappear Jeff Garzik
2006-09-06 15:05 ` Timo Hirvonen
2006-09-06 15:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 15:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-06 16:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 16:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 19:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-06 21:45 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2006-09-07 0:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-07 10:16 ` Alex Riesen
2006-09-06 17:11 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-06 18:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 18:52 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-06 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 23:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-06 19:25 ` Jakub Narebski
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