The post talks about merging working correctly with renamed files. That's not a "corner case"; that's exactly what Linus is referring to in your quote. The aut

The post talks about merging working correctly with renamed files. That's not a "corner case"; that's exactly what Linus is referring to in your quote. The author could've given an example like this where he got a conflict and that would still be an infinitely better outcome than what Subversion's doing. You'd actually know that there are changes that you need to reconcile, instead of it silently succeeding. He's not missing the point.