Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus Torvalds <address@hidden> Re: log-buf-len dynamic

[Davide Libenzi]

On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Miles Bader wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 08:46:31PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > > I think patches will be around for a long time; the central developers
> > > may stop using them, but such things don't go away quickly.
> >
> > yes. Though the majority of patches don't involve renames.
>
> It is nice to handle them correctly though -- and currently with BK, Linus
> _does_ handle rename patches correctly (I was very impressed when I first saw
> it).

This would be solved with a:

$ tla merge-diff file

with Arch automatically 'tla add'ing new files and 'tla delete'ing
removed files. I believe BK has a feature like that, not sure though since
I never used it. Linus never complained though, as far as I can remember.



- Davide