Re:Git Branches: Intuition and Reality
by keybored on Friday November 24, 2023 @10:04AM
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> It’s completely trivial.
Like I implicitly said: how to do it beyond the “simple identical content cases”?
But if the solution is for the user to explicitly order renames (i.e., this renamed Java class is a file move) then the solution is indeed simple.
I see the point that Linus was making that you may want to be able to see “function moves” and so on. But in practice I am very often interested in file moves since you can inspect the file history easily in Git—except when you hit some wall because someone renamed the file. Then you need to re-run the command with `--follow`. Contrast all of that with a function move... I almost never can summon the will to fish out the incantation (like a regex or a robust line range) which will give me the history of a function across intra- or inter-file moves and so on.
Like I implicitly said: how to do it beyond the “simple identical content cases”?
But if the solution is for the user to explicitly order renames (i.e., this renamed Java class is a file move) then the solution is indeed simple.
I see the point that Linus was making that you may want to be able to see “function moves” and so on. But in practice I am very often interested in file moves since you can inspect the file history easily in Git—except when you hit some wall because someone renamed the file. Then you need to re-run the command with `--follow`. Contrast all of that with a function move... I almost never can summon the will to fish out the incantation (like a regex or a robust line range) which will give me the history of a function across intra- or inter-file moves and so on.