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From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 4/4] inexact rename detection eye candy
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:29:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=s6FxnYVv3UinV4Q+4C_9dX9rCLQQoCFD7kG9S@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110219102533.GD22508@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> During a merge, we might spend many seconds doing inexact
> rename detection. It's nice to let the user know that
> something is actually happening.

Given that we're doing costly work, could the results of rename
matching be recorded in a .git/MERGE_RENAMES file?

If that file's available, the simple merge-helper script I've
described is possible...

git commit would have to unlink it on successful commit...

cheers,



m
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-19 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-18 18:58 Merging limitations after directory renames -- interesting test repo Martin Langhoff
2011-02-18 22:21 ` Jeff King
2011-02-18 23:27   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-19  0:26     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-19  0:52       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-19  1:03         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-19  1:20           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-19  0:55       ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-19  0:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-19  9:08     ` Jeff King
2011-02-19 10:19     ` Jeff King
2011-02-19 10:20       ` [PATCH 1/4] merge: improve inexact rename limit warning Jeff King
2011-02-21 23:33         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-22 15:39           ` Jeff King
2011-02-22 18:46             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-23  8:02               ` Jeff King
2011-02-19 10:21       ` [PATCH 2/4] bump rename limit defaults (again) Jeff King
2011-02-19 17:54         ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-02-20 10:10           ` Jeff King
2011-02-19 20:12         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-02-20 10:12           ` Jeff King
2011-02-19 10:21       ` [PATCH 3/4] commit: stop setting rename limit Jeff King
2011-02-19 10:25       ` [RFC/PATCH 4/4] inexact rename detection eye candy Jeff King
2011-02-19 15:57         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-20  9:48           ` Jeff King
2011-02-20  9:51             ` [PATCH 1/3] add inexact rename detection progress infrastructure Jeff King
2011-02-20  9:53             ` [PATCH 2/3] merge: enable progress reporting for rename detection Jeff King
2011-02-20  9:56             ` [PATCH 3/3] pull: propagate --progress to merge Jeff King
2011-02-20 10:37             ` [RFC/PATCH 4/4] inexact rename detection eye candy Jeff King
2011-02-19 16:29         ` Martin Langhoff [this message]
2011-02-20 10:04           ` Jeff King
2011-02-20 13:16             ` Martin Langhoff
2011-02-19 15:22       ` Merging limitations after directory renames -- interesting test repo Martin Langhoff
2011-02-19 15:31         ` Martin Langhoff

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