Re: VCS comparison table

Aaron Bentley [off-list ref] wrote:

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Aaron Bentley wrote:

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You'll note we referred to that bevhavior on the page.  We don't think
what Git does is the same as supporting renames.  AIUI, some Git users
feel the same way.

Oh, we start another flamewar again?

I'd hope not.  It sounds as though you feel that supporting renames in
the data representation is *wrong*, and therefore it should be an insult
to you if we said that Git fully supported renames.

It would seem that the majority of folks on the Git list feel that
way, myself among them.  I don't know that we'd find it an insult
to say Git fully supports renames but I do think we have had better
results from *not* recording them and looking for them after the
fact with smart tools.

Junio's recent work with git-pickaxe (or whatever its name finally
settles out to be) is a perfect example of this.  Despite not having
"recorded renames" git-pickaxe is able to fairly accurately detect
blocks of code moving between files, of which renaming files is just
a special case.  This provides some fairly accurate blame reporting
pointing to exactly which commit/author/datetime put a given line
of code into the project.

No additional metadata required.  All existing repositories can
immediately benefit from the new tool.  Rather slick if you ask me.

-- 
Shawn.