On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM Nico Williams <nico@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 11:02:41AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > We designed not to etch such wrong renames/copoies in stone by > > recording them at the commit time. Instead we compare the before > > and after image to intuit the _intention_ of what the user wanted to > > do _when_ you _ask_ (i.e. when you run "git diff" or "git log"). > > Well, I suspect more likely that Linus didn't want to have some sort of > inode number nor some sort of explicit rename/copy indication as a > significant simplification that allowed Git to get shipped sooner. I'm > not questioning that nor trying to litigate rename/copy. Contrary to your suspicion, what Junio describes above was a conscious and deliberate design decision by Linus[*]. [*]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/Pine.LNX.4.58.0504150753440.7211@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
