Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2018, #02; Tue, 13)

Elijah Newren [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

 Rename detection logic in "diff" family that is used in "merge" has
 learned to guess when all of x/a, x/b and x/c have moved to z/a,
 z/b and z/c, it is likely that x/d added in the meantime would also
 want to move to z/d by taking the hint that the entire directory
 'x' moved to 'z'.

When you write release notes for this series, you may want to consider
also calling out one or more of the bugs that were fixed as a side
effect:
  * a bug causing dirty files involved in a rename to be overwritten
during merge
  * a few memory leaks
I added a reminder about these two fixes in the cover letter for my
latest (and possibly last?) roll of the series that I just sent out.

Thanks.