Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> It was corrected into the current behaviour, following the guiding >> principle described in this message: >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/3807 > > Ahh, you're a wily one. Using my own words against me. I am not being wily. I usually do not remember nor quote too old histories, but June 2005 was somewhat special to me. Those two weeks of 18-hour-straight-doing-git-and-nothing-else, working with git and with you in particular, were what taught me how fun open source development and working with brilliant others is. > Ie, the true "guiding principle" should be the principle of minizing the > final diff - that's how diff is supposed to act within a single file, and > I think it's how the rename/copy detection is supposed to act too. Ok, I would agree with that in principle, but that would be rather intrusive change that I am sure would have fallout to git-apply side (and anybody who interprets "git diff" output, especially gitweb), too. I am not rejecting the idea, but I won't be able to look into it myself for some time. - 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
