Re: A Proposal to Move to Git

Steinar Bang
2013-08-21T18:40:30Z

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:

> . Files/directories that are deleted or moved/renamed. Will the
> information from the Attic be extracted, and will git be able to
> intuit renaming and handle deleted files correctly? (One type of
> file which we constantly rename is ChangeLog.)

If you mean follow the history with "git blame" and "git log" across
renames, then the answer is: it depends on how that rename is
represented in the CVS repository.

If a file is removed with one name, and the exact same file is added
with a different name, git itself should be able to detect this as a
rename, no matter what the conversion tool does.

But there are several ways to represent a rename in CVS... issue #1 for
cvs2svn (from which cvs2git derives) lists the possible ways a rename
can be done, and discusses the heuristics to detect this. I see that
this issue is still open: