On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:51:51PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ryan Anderson <ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Git has taken a very pragmatic approach, in that the goal has been "What > > is the smallest number of concepts we can create that let us solve the > > problem, even if we occassionally have to make some tradeoffs?" > > (Thinking of rename detection there, mostly.) > > I do not see it as a tradeoff not to record renames. It _is_ a > feature. Oh, I don't disagree. What I was getting at was that not recording renames means we've traded off a little bit of speed and maybe accuracy, when we care about renames, for a simpler, better implementation. It's a tradeoff, but one that was very much the right decision, IMO. -- Ryan Anderson sometimes Pug Majere - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html