Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> In any case, much of what I speculated while reading the proposed >> log message turned out to be false, which may be a sign that the log >> message did not explain the approach clearly enough. I thought that >> a newly created file that happened to be identical to existing ones >> would be discarded without getting renamed to their final location, >> but the code does not do such special casing. I thought the >> 'metadata' it talks about were to compensate for side effects of >> reusing the old files, but that was not what the 'metadata' was even >> about. > > It's more about: ... You do not have to explain that to me here. Instead explain that to future readers of our history in the commit log message. Thanks.
