From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11063 invoked by alias); 22 Oct 2013 15:20:54 -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 11041 invoked by uid 89); 22 Oct 2013 15:20:54 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.6 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 15:20:53 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r9MFKfAu014425 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:20:42 -0400 Received: from barimba (ovpn-113-54.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.54]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r9MFKeeh025882 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:20:41 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: Fred Cooke Cc: 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> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:20:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Fred Cooke's message of "Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:52:36 +0200") Message-ID: <87txg9gwmv.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2013-10/txt/msg00081.txt.bz2 >>>>> "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. Fred> And thanks! A lot. I'll actually feel motivated (as opposed to Fred> disgusted) I will send you a list of source files not to read :) Tom