On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 05:22:01PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote: > >> With this patch, we disable the postimage record 'fn_table' when applying > >> a patch to produce new files out of existing file by copying to fix this > >> issue. > > > > Odd. I guess the way I read this workflow is > > > > apply change X to A, copy A' to B, apply change Y to B => B' now has changes X+Y > > > > But instead you are saying B' only has change Y because A is copied to B > > not A'. > > > > Regardless, it doesn't affect my workflow. > > Oh, it does. It's a normal git diff where a copy was detected! > > Don't let you distract by the word "incremental" and by the names A and B. > In the example above, the change X comes first because 'A' is sorted > before 'B'. If the roles of A and B were swapped, then you have this patch: > > diff --git a/A b/A > copy from B > copy to A > --- a/A > +++ b/A > ... change text Y here ... > diff --git a/A b/B > --- a/A > +++ b/B > ... change text X here ... > > See? Yes, thank you! Cheers, Don -- 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
