On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 02:40:35PM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: > > I don't know if a link exists; I suspect the request referred to here is > > an email that Johannes Schindelin wrote to Elijah privately). > > It exists: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BG-Nx6SCxxkGXn_Fwd2wseifMFND8eddvWxiZVZk0zRaA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > ...which wasn't Johannes' request. Ah, thanks for the link! > > But I am almost certain that the behavior requested here is to disable > > rename detection to match the behavior of GitHub's prior use of libgit2 > > to perform merges, where we also had rename detection disabled (for > > reasons that are unclear to me, but Peff might know). > > No, if that were the sole reason, I'd say it probably only belongs in > our internal fork. Disabling of rename detection within GitHub was a > temporary internal migration measure, not a desired end state -- at > least that's the way Johannes portrayed it to me. I know that > "temporary" sometimes lasts longer than we want, but now that I've > become internal to GitHub, one of the things I want to do is add some > weight to that "temporary" modifier. :-). Thanks, Taylor
