From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6836 invoked by alias); 22 Oct 2013 17:44:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 6813 invoked by uid 89); 22 Oct 2013 17:44:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:44:44 +0000 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r9MHifNc023477 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:44:41 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r9MHidgB016865; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:44:40 -0400 Message-ID: <5266B987.2000603@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:44:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Tromey CC: Fred Cooke , GDB Development , Binutils Development , rsandifo@linux.vnet.ibm.com Subject: Re: git is live References: <877gd5iyaz.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <874n89eidz.fsf@sandifor-thinkpad.stglab.manchester.uk.ibm.com> <87txg9gwmv.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <87txg9gwmv.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-10/txt/msg00089.txt.bz2 On 10/22/2013 04:20 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Cooke writes: > > Fred> Tom, although the commits that remove/readd all files are ugly, git is > Fred> smart enough to reuse the blobs, so they don't really do any harm. IE, > Fred> don't feel too bad about it :-) > > The specific problem is that git blame doesn't track through the weird > commits; and I know Pedro does this somewhat more often than other > people, and would have liked to see the real history, instead of having > to manually go back before April 1999. Yeah. Oh well, not a show stopper. Maybe I'll find a way to tell git to treat a range of commits as a single commit for blame/log purposes, so that "git blame" punches through that hole. In any case, I'm deeply, immensely grateful that we've switched away from CVS. Many many thanks for doing all this. -- Pedro Alves