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author | Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> | 2007-07-10 06:58:23 +0400 |
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committer | Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> | 2007-07-10 07:06:16 +0400 |
commit | f39a946a1fb0fa4856cd0027b9da3603a1b06fdc (patch) | |
tree | 0a2dd51b906ef674ac94b08cfe85506da9cb7c12 /builtin-rerere.c | |
parent | 11a264050f61bb15c413cced058db2ac96fd96f9 (diff) |
Support wholesale directory renames in fast-import
Some source material (e.g. Subversion dump files) perform directory
renames without telling us exactly which files in that subdirectory
were moved. This makes it hard for a frontend to convert such data
formats to a fast-import stream, as all the frontend has on hand
is "Rename a/ to b/" with no details about what files are in a/,
unless the frontend also kept track of all files.
The new 'R' subcommand within a commit allows the frontend to
rename either a file or an entire subdirectory, without needing to
know the object's SHA-1 or the specific files contained within it.
The rename is performed as efficiently as possible internally,
making it cheaper than a 'D'/'M' pair for a file rename.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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