Re: Basename matching during rename/copy detection

Hi,

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Steven Grimm wrote:

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

quoted

Yes. And Git explicitely allows what I call stupid. And yes, those
_identical_ files in the test suit should probably all be folded into
single files, and the places where they are used should reference _that_
single instance.
  

Two files that are identical in the current revision have not necessarily
been identical from the beginning. Doing what you suggest will cause you to
lose the history of all but one of those files.

Files can absolutely become identical in the real world. I know that for a
fact because it happened to me just this week (see my "Directory renames"
message from a few days ago.)

No, that message did not convince me. It was way too short on the side of 
facts.

And no, I do not think that two unrelated files can get exactly the same 
content.

Be that as may, even _if_ there were such a case, I'd still try to reuse 
the same file in the working directory. Just because Git can deal 
efficiently with millions of identical files does not mean that a working 
directory can, or worse, human developers.

Ciao,
Dscho