[Kde-scm-interest] Git history

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 05:27:45PM +0200, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em Domingo 28. Março 2010, às 16.54.47, Thomas McGuire escreveu:
> > On Sunday 28 March 2010 16:06:59 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > Em Domingo 28. Março 2010, às 15.29.20, Thomas McGuire escreveu:
> > > > > That's how Git works. Never mind the issue.
> > > > 
> > > > What do you mean with that? Essentially all history is gone, since even
> > > > git  log -C -C --follow can't access it. Surely this is just a problem
> > > > with svn2git?
> > > 
> > > No, the history isn't gone if the older files are listed as deleted any
> > > time before. Your email confirms that.
> > 
> > Sorry, I didn't express myself correctly.
> > The history is still there, but git log -C -C --follow can't deal with it.
> 
> No, you did express yourself correctly. I understood that part.
> 
> And I'm telling you to leave it alone. That's how Git works.
> 
yes, but it's besides the point. what thomas means is that the history
is gone for all practical matters. one can hope for git getting better,
but that won't help right now.

> > I was wondering if e4adcdabf0046389fbefd9c46b29c7d5a62dff40 and
> > ef0d005a9a098c8f56887bd76db560f796c4f480 could be squashed together to a
> > single commit, so that git log can detect it an atomic move.
> 
> No. Then you no longer have a correct import of the history.
>
does that worry you? i find a useful history more important than an
accurate one. that's the whole idea behind rebase -i, after all.