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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 03/10] blktap: Move from drivers/xen to drivers/b

On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 03:24 -0500, Ian Campbell wrote:

> > Oooh, scratch that, that's not even the case.
> > 
> > I seem to finally be getting what you're really talking about. This is
> > not really a broken commit, it's solely about send-email not enabling
> > rename *detection*. Interesting, I always assumed the renaming case must
> > be a property of the commit object, not a diff feature.
> 
> I don't know if it is a feature of the commit metadata (which FWIW I'd
> expect to be retained over a rebase etc) or something which is computed
> at diff generation time. In any case -M is required to get the git patch
> syntax, the default is to be compatible with old-school patch utils.
> 
> > That correct now?
> 
> <1299715326-26236-1-git-send-email-daniel.stodden@xxxxxxxxxx> looks
> good.

Okay.

I learned -M is actually a git-diff option passed through. The man page
mentions it's O(n^2).

I had to learn all that while wondering if there's a config option to
turn it on, and that took me O(n).

It's [diff] renames = true btw, but might be a bad idea.

Cheers.
Daniel


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