On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 05:29:12PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Maybe somebody bothers to implement some directory rename heuristic some > day. Quite frankly, I personally cannot care less. It really is mental > masturbation, and has absolutely no relevance for any real-world problem. > Actually, the directory rename hueristic *does* have relevance in at least some real-world cases. For example, MySQL has plugin directories, and occasionally the plugins get renamed, for whatever reason. If a plugin gets renamed, so does its directory, and if the rename operation happens in an experimental (or devel) branch, but then for whatever reason, a new file is created in the devel (or maint) branch, without the directory rename hueristic, when the changeset is pulled into the experimental (or devel) branch, the file will be created in the wrong directory. So it may be rare, but this kind of thing does happen in the real world. - Ted -- 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
