Re: A Proposal to Move to Git

Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-21T20:05:08Z

> From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:40:04 +0200
> Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
>
> >>>>> 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.

Yes, and I would think we should consider extracting as much
information from CVS about these renames as practically possible,
because having a discontinuous history is very inconvenient when you
need to do some forensics.