Re: [PATCH] diffcore-rename: favour identical basenames

On Thursday 2007 June 21, Linus Torvalds wrote:

The files are *identical* for christ sake! Following their history, it
doesn't matter *which* base you follow, since regardless, they've come to
the same point!

So in that sense, the current git behaviour is actually perfectly fine.

Perhaps not.  (Please don't read this as meaning I disagree with your 
favour-the-identical-filename patch at all - in fact I think that would 
address the case I give below).

What if two files with different filenames and content converge at some point 
in history, then diverge again?  If git is tracking renames merely by content 
and picks the wrong one, then the history of fileA suddenly becomes the 
history of fileB.


Andy

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