Re: Merging limitations after directory renames -- interesting test repo

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

And the bug is that we didn't even ask for copy detection! This just
confuses merging more.

Yeah, I think it is probably a good idea to really limit the rename
detection only to renames at least inside merge-recursive.  The static
variable does look ugly but it shouldn't be a rocket surgery to pass it
down if we want to.