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by emmelaich 442 days ago
I watched that whole process with fascination. It was long, careful, thorough ... and chose wrong.

A part of me thinks that there was a Sun users aversion to anything Linux related.
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cryptonector 442 days ago
> A part of me thinks that there was a Sun users aversion to anything Linux related.

It wasn't that. It really was just about file renaming.

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emmelaich 441 days ago
Git ignored that particular Gordian knot by ignoring it. Many VCSs agonised over file identity. They overestimated the importance and underestimated its difficulty. It's basically impossible in the general sense.
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