On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> Although Linus is correct in that an SCM doesn't *have* to handle this,
> it really feels like shooting for mediocracy to me. We might as well
> design it right from the beginning.
No. git is not an SCM. it's a filesystem designed to _host_ an SCM, and
that _is_ doing it right from the beginning.
Keep the abstractions clean. Do _not_ get confused into thinking that git
is an SCM. If you think of it that way, you'll end up with crap you can't
think about.
And at a filesystem layer, "rename" already exists. It's moving an object
to a new name in a tree. git already does that very well, thank you very
much.
But a filesystem rename is _not_ the same thing as an SCM rename. An SCM
rename is built on top of a filesystem rename, but it has its own issues
that may or may not make sense for the filesystem.
Linus
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