Re: [RFC PATCH v4 0/4] Detection of directory renames

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Yann Dirson wrote:

> At last a reroll of that old series.

v3: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/99780
v2: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/99529
v1: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94612

In particular, from the cover letter to v1:

| I often found myself lost when looking at a diff where a couple of
| large dirs where renamed, and a handful of files were modified to take
| the rename into account - not a rare situation, I'd say.  In such a
| case, the diffs themselves are mostly hidden among numerous rename
| entries.
| 
| To that, I felt that git ought to know better, and could easily
| present a directory rename as such.

Yes!

> I hope we can turn the simple detection feature to something
> acceptable for inclusion - that is, once unified diff output shows the
> detected renames as annotations, and once the known major holes are
> plugged (both from FIXME and testcases).

Okay, I look forward to learning the output format.
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