git is live

Pedro Alves palves@redhat.com
Tue Oct 22 17:44:00 GMT 2013


On 10/22/2013 04:20 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "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.

Yeah.  Oh well, not a show stopper.  Maybe I'll find a way to tell
git to treat a range of commits as a single commit for blame/log
purposes, so that "git blame" punches through that hole.

In any case, I'm deeply, immensely grateful that we've switched away
from CVS.  Many many thanks for doing all this.

-- 
Pedro Alves



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