Re: git-style file storage for .deb

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> writes:

> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> If you have 2 similar files, not identical, in different locations?
>> I highly doubt that.
>>
>> If the files are identical then git will see the same hash for both
>> and only store one copy. But not if the differ slightly.
>
> You tell git when you move a file and it records the fact in the
> change record.  Because of this it knows the predecessor file even
> though it has changed location, and can properly diff with it.

And you are going to tell git about every single file that is in a
different location in debian and for example redhat?

Or every file that gets moved in a debian package between versions?

Have fun.

MfG
        Goswin