Re: [PATCH 06/18] x86 vDSO: arch/x86/vdso/vdso32

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Roland McGrath wrote:

> > git format-patch -p
> > 
> > does the trick at least here :)
> 
> Ok, I can use that in future.  I hope it still means that in the eventual
> merged state, GIT will be aware of all the renames.

git does not store the "renamed/copied" info at all. That's just an
optimization. It does not matter if you use git-mv or just apply a
patch which does the same. git figures that out by looking at the
changes AFAICT, but not by storing metadata which keeps track of this.

Thanks,

	tglx
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