[SCM] Samba Shared Repository - branch master updated

[simo]

On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 18:09 +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
> On 1 March 2011 14:55, simo <idra at samba.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > If you want to see this patch in a slightly better form you can use a
> > command like this:
> > git showh -M -C --patience 5f5ca913b7abfcf95782339fac2dc8c1541b1126
> >
> > With this one git is told to detect the rename and does show only the
> > differences.
> >
> > you can use the same arguments for generating better patches when you
> > want to send them around for review, like this:
> >  git format-patch -M -C --patience --full-index -1
> > 5f5ca913b7abfcf95782339fac2dc8c1541b1126
> 
> I believe that if you use "-C" you do not also need to use "-M".  "-C"
> does both copies and moves, whereas, "-M" just does moves.

Yeah this is true, although putting both in there doesn't cause any
issue (so far :)

> There is also --find-copies-harder, but there's a warning attached to
> that: "This is a very expensive operation for large projects, so use
> it with caution."

Yeah I stay away from that one, as normally -C is sufficient.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo at samba.org>
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo at redhat.com>