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

Hi,

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

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.

This is becoming highly ethereal. Like "I could imagine that some day in 
future, some person could devise a device, that might allow you to do 
something that I can not explain, because I have not even thought of it".

IOW show me a reasonable example, and we'll talk business.

Ciao,
Dscho