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

[Zack Brown]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 03:30:39PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 08:08:41PM -0400, 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).
> 
> are you sure the reason isn't that every kernel developer but myself and
> Davide (and a very few others) are using bitkeeper? are you sure
> bitkeeper can detect renames automatically even if submitting it through
> a patch?

That's my impression from lkml discussion. I think BK isn't perfect with
this, but my understanding is that when it works from a diff, it looks at
created and deleted files, to see if they are really renames. It takes a
little extra time, but apparently it's worth it.

One of the more impressive aspects of BK.

Be well,
Zack

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Zack Brown