Re: merge smart enough to adapt to renames?

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On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Kris Shannon <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rogan Dawes wrote:
>> It seems to me that git is smart enough to figure out where contents get
>> moved to, once. Of course, if you have conflicting moves in the same
>> repo, git's automation falls down. So, if you need to move the "same"
>> file in different repositories to different places, you need to do it
>> via an intermediate repo that will be able to "remember" which movement
>> you chose.
>
> You don't need a whole different repo,  branches are good enough.
>
> git checkout gentoo-integration
> git pull gentoo
>
> git checkout sunrise-integration
> git pull sunrise
>
> git checkout master
> git merge gentoo
> git merge sunrise
>
> The integration branches can remember your local changes to
> the remotes (like the move of packages.mask)
>

it sounds like a decent plan on paper... but when you realize each
checkout is 100,000+ files...to where as if I create a repo just for
it... it ends up being like 5 files... and I'm not entirely sure that
has much of a negative side effect... other than... yet another
remote...

-- 
Caleb Cushing

http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com
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