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List:       git
Subject:    Re: Errors GITtifying GCC and Binutils
From:       Junio C Hamano <junkio () cox ! net>
Date:       2006-03-24 0:34:00
Message-ID: 7vpskc3clj.fsf () assigned-by-dhcp ! cox ! net
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Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> writes:

> What I was getting at was that not recording renames means we've traded
> off a little bit of speed and maybe accuracy, when we care about
> renames, for a simpler, better implementation.
>
> It's a tradeoff, but one that was very much the right decision, IMO.

Well, that is like arguing that we do not autocommit every time
the user makes any change in the working tree -- which means git
cannot be used to go back to _any_ time in history -- but we are
making that tradeoff and instead letting the user to decide
explicitly when to make commits.

Recording every keystrokes _is_ a wrong feature and not
supporting a wrong feature _is_ a feature.  It is not a
tradeoff.

When I said "not recording renames _is_ a feature", I really
meant it that way.

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