On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 07:50:55AM +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: > No -- GIT doesn't only look for a filename match, that'd be naive. > Once it finds teh file, it tries to figure out if it's the same one > (SHA1 matches or a high similarity index). Same for identifying the > rename: it looks for new files in that commit with a high similarity > index.
Ah, joy, so it makes an educated guess instead. I fail to understand why the developers would go to such great lengths to develop fuzzy matching, which is *going* to fail by definition in certain circumstances, just to avoid adding a single command where the user explicitly records a rename and gets 100% accuracy. If the only solutions out there are going to make a policy of assuming I'm that lazy and trying to second-guess my every move, then thanks, but no thanks. I'll pass on the silver hammers until someone comes up with a (better) real toolset.
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