Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus Torvalds <address@hidden> Re: log-buf-len dynamic

[Tupshin Harper]

Miles Bader wrote:

> Bruce Stephens <address@hidden> writes:
>  
>
> > I presume humans only need to be involved when you're trying to import
> > a new tarball or something (where BitKeeper can't know how files have
> > been moved around).
> >    
>
> The much more common case is applying a patch from a non-BK-using
> developer (still the majority, I think) -- patches represent moved files
> as a big delete plus a big add.
>
> -Miles
>  
What about thinking thinking about the entire problem in terms of the 
general case where code moves from one file to another (while being 
modified as well), with wholesale file moves being a special case of that?

-Tupshin