Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:46:55 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] staging: zcache: rename ramster to zcache |
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:26:34AM -0800, Dan Magenheimer wrote: > In staging, rename ramster to zcache > > The original zcache in staging was a "demo" version, and this new zcache > is a significant rewrite. While certain disagreements were being resolved, > both "old zcache" and "new zcache" needed to reside in the staging tree > simultaneously. In order to minimize code change and churn, the newer > version of zcache was temporarily merged into the "ramster" staging driver > which, prior to that, had at one time heavily leveraged the older version > of zcache. So, recently, "new zcache" resided in the ramster directory. > > Got that? No? Sorry, temporary political compromises are rarely pretty. > > The older version of zcache is no longer being maintained and has now > been removed from the staging tree. So now the newer version of zcache > can rightfully reclaim sole possession of the name "zcache". > > This patch is simply a manual: > > # git mv drivers/staging/ramster drivers/staging/zcache > > so the actual patch diff has been left out. > > Because a git mv loses history, part of the original description of > the changes between "old zcache" and "new zcache" is repeated below:
git mv does not loose history, it can handle it just fine.
greg k-h
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