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    DateSun, 10 Apr 2005 03:09:09 -0400
    FromChristopher Li <>
    SubjectRe: Re: more git updates..
    On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:41:53AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
    > Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 07:53:40AM CEST, I got a letter
    > where Christopher Li <lkml@chrisli.org> told me that...
    > > On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:51:59AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
    > > > 
    > > > But I am wondering what your plans are to handle renames---or
    > > > does git already represent them?
    > > >
    > > 
    > > Rename should just work.  It will create a new tree object and you
    > > will notice that in the entry that changed, the hash for the blob
    > > object is the same.
    > 
    > Which is of course wrong when you want to do proper merging, examine
    > per-file history, etc. One solution which springs to my mind is to have
    > a UUID accompany each blob and tree; that will take relatively lot of
    > space though, and I'm not sure it is really worth it.
    
    It should just use the rename + change two step then it is tractable
    with git now.
    
    Chris
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