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Re: git is live
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Fred Cooke <fred dot cooke at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GDB Development <gdb at sourceware dot org>, Binutils Development <binutils at sourceware dot org>, rsandifo at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:20:40 -0600
- Subject: Re: git is live
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>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Cooke <fred.cooke@gmail.com> writes:
Fred> Tom, although the commits that remove/readd all files are ugly, git is
Fred> smart enough to reuse the blobs, so they don't really do any harm. IE,
Fred> don't feel too bad about it :-)
The specific problem is that git blame doesn't track through the weird
commits; and I know Pedro does this somewhat more often than other
people, and would have liked to see the real history, instead of having
to manually go back before April 1999.
Fred> And thanks! A lot. I'll actually feel motivated (as opposed to
Fred> disgusted)
I will send you a list of source files not to read :)
Tom