Re: Following renames

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:

I wonder what is the most common case in Linux kernel or git.

1.) renaming the file in the same directory, old-file.c to new-file.c?

The kernel uses subdirectories extensively, and a lot of renames (most of 
them, I'd say) is because of that subdirectory structure. 

So the same-directory case is the unusual one, I'd say.

3.) splitting file into modules, huge-file.c to file1.c, file2.c?
4.) copying fragment of one file to other?
5.) moving fragment of code from one file to other?

I'd say that (5) is very common. And (4) happens a lot under certain 
circumstances (new driver, new architecture, new filesystem..).

Doing (3) happens, but probably less often that it should ;/

		Linus