[oe] Loss of all package history following the recipe rename.

[John Willis]

People,

Am I right in assuming that the decision to drop history for all packages
was really an unintentional side effect of this change? 

Unless I am going totally nuts the ONLY history for a given package now is
the 'git mv' commit.

i.e. on GIT HEAD

git log recipes/abiword/abiword-plugins_2.5.2.bb
commit 709c4d66e0b107ca606941b988bad717c0b45d9b
Author: Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org>
<snip, only the only commit logged>

On an old tree I keep for reference.

git log packages/abiword/abiword-plugins_2.5.2.bb
<snip, page after page of commits logged>

I just checked and the behavior of 'git mv' and it seems it's really just
'git rm && git add' under the hood, a few local experiments seem to confirm
that is the by design behavior (seems totally insane for a source control
system to do that however :-o) and after the 'git rm' the history is toast
as your then creating a new object with the same content as the removed one
:(.

I am not sure what we can do about this without resorting to a revert but it
looks like we may wish to look into something like 'git-filter-branch' (and
several other tools) to redo the move with something like the history
intact. 

That said, 'git-filter-branch' is a little scary and is proving to be more
then I really planned to be messing with on a sunny afternoon and I am not
totally sure if it will even do what is needed.

Does anyone have any other ideas or comment? Or have I completely lost the
plot and there is not really any problem other then in my local trees?

Regards,

John

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