Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:22:11 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86: use arch/x86/include |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote: > >> Hi x86 guys. >> >> It turned out to be easy to enable um to use arch/x86/include so here >> is a git pull. > > hm, we have a _ton_ of changes to include files queued up already, so > this is rather inconvenient.
Git *should* be able to track those changes across a rename and even with a rename on one branch and changes on another; in my experience it works well for filename renames, but git doesn't understand directory renames at all, so new files do have to be moved to their new locations manually.
> I missed the discussion on this, what's the point of renaming all these > files?
I know there has been talk about this on and off for a long time (to get all the arch code into arch/). I don't know if there are any mechanical reasons for it, on top of that.
-hpa
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