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Re: A Proposal to Move to Git
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Steinar Bang <sb at dod dot no>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:05:04 +0300
- Subject: Re: A Proposal to Move to Git
- References: <8738q4gj7a dot fsf at fleche dot redhat dot com> <83siy3jd7m dot fsf at gnu dot org> <87siy299bv dot fsf at dod dot no>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:40:04 +0200
> Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
>
> >>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>
> > . Files/directories that are deleted or moved/renamed. Will the
> > information from the Attic be extracted, and will git be able to
> > intuit renaming and handle deleted files correctly? (One type of
> > file which we constantly rename is ChangeLog.)
>
> If you mean follow the history with "git blame" and "git log" across
> renames, then the answer is: it depends on how that rename is
> represented in the CVS repository.
Yes, and I would think we should consider extracting as much
information from CVS about these renames as practically possible,
because having a discontinuous history is very inconvenient when you
need to do some forensics.