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Re:The biggest and weirdest commits in Linux kernel Git hist... by dmurray on Friday December 25, 2020 @12:29PM (#25537736)
It doesn't seem fundamentally harder than pretending all of the changes happened in a different directory, and then that directory got moved from being a sibling to a subdirectory of the nominal project root.
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Re:The biggest and weirdest commits in Linux kernel Git hist... by Hello71 on Friday December 25, 2020 @01:50PM (#25538235)
it's a problem in the git model, since all the commit hashes would change. that means that all existing references become invalid, including emails, commit messages, and pull requests.
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