Re: [GIT PULL 05/11] SoC-level changes for tegra and omap

[Junio C Hamano]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> What about using -C instead (which implies -M, but also detects copies) ?
>
> I don't mind -C. It sometimes causes differences to what I see by
> default, but those differences are often interesting.
>
> But while it's interesting and relevant (unlike the non-rename patch
> that is just noisy), it also can hide lots of lines. With -C, you can
> get a diffstat that is actually fairly small, but that adds a lot of
> lines to the kernel (because somebody just copied large files with
> small changes), and if that happens I do want to see it as a "big
> change". So for me, the plain "just show renames" is a good default.
>
> So there is absolutely nothing wrong with -C. It's not what I use, but
> when I see that the diffstats don't match, it's easy to notice why,
> and that information is often fairly interesting, so I don't mind.

How about encouraging people to use stock "git request-pull" instead?

Then best/better practices can be captured as improvement patches to it,
instead of being spread as updates to many people's homebrew scripts, no?
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