Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support)

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> You simply misunderstood me: I didn't mean the hardware.

Then I'm afraid you weren't clear. I don't know why academic environments would 
be significantly different from home environments when it comes to Emacs hacking 
in general or Git support in particular.

Even in places where network connectivity is limited, I don't see why a serious 
Emacs hacker would intentionally avoid the Git repository and instead download 
and manipulate tarballs by hand. Git doesn't need constant network connectivity, 
and its benefit (in terms of examining and managing Emacs history) far exceeds 
the few minutes of delay in the initial download.