In article <76718491002031555i2c1558f9qe0c97d07ceb86bb6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > More about this: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=114123702826251 > > I think the canonical email on the subject is this one: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/217 > The upshot seems to be this: > And that "where did this come from" decision should be done at _search_ > time, not commit time. And I'm mostly convinced, except for the one screw case that I outlined above. In that case the search-time result is ambiguous, and file tracking information could be used to resolve the ambiguity. But it certainly does seem like a rare enough situation that it's not worth worrying about. I think I'm starting to git it :-) rg -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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