On 02/07/26 10:51, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

On Wed, Jul 01, 2026 at 07:45:09AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Phillip Wood [off-list ref] writes:

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Another cost is remembering things have moved - the other day I spent
too long wondering why "git show origin/seen:wt-status.c" wasn't working
until I ran "git log origin/seen" and realized it had move to
lib/wt-status.c.

Yes, this has bit me multiple dozen times, as the tip of 'seen' is
contaminated with this rename, already.  It is a huge pain.

Yeah, this one I don't have any arguments against besides a very
hand-wavy "it'll get better over time" :)

On a bit of a tangent, this made me wonder if it would be helpful to 
make a potential improvement to 'git show' UX that shows a hint that the 
file asked to be shown was moved as part of a recent rename.

Something like:

   $ git show origin/seen:wt-status.c
   fatal: path 'wt-status.c' does not exist in 'origin/seen'
   hint: 'wt-status.c' appears to have been renamed to 
'builtin/wt-status.c' in 'origin/seen'
   hint: Did you mean 'origin/seen:builtin/wt-status.c'?
   hint: Disable this message with "git config advice.objectNameWarning 
false"

Finding rename just to show a hint sounds a bit too much work for a 
hint. I wonder if it would worth given the better UX, though.

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Sivaraam