On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 05:56:16AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > It is not "simpler is more manageable". > > The early days' design decision, which still lives to this day, was > a bit stronger than that. As can be read from [*1*] (which by the > way I consider one of the most important message regarding the > design in early days of Git), the design started from "recording > renames is pointless". > > *1* https://lore.kernel.org/git/Pine.LNX.4.58.0504150753440.7211@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Allow me to withdraw my use of similarity heuristics for renames as an argument against similarity heuristics over change IDs. I still think that explicit change IDs would be better than using only commit similarity heuristics. Nico --
