Re: Tracking files across tree reorganizations

"H. Peter Anvin" [off-list ref] writes:

HOWEVER, I maintain that this is unnecessary (and, as Linus has pointed 
out several time, losing) -- we already detect renames without relying 
on commit-time metadata.  If it's too expensive to generate the metadata 
on every merge, it can be cached.

I agree; I was wondering why you brought it up again.