{"thread":{"id":"9237","subject":"rename directory weirdness","startedAt":"2007-07-26T07:47:41Z","lastAt":"2007-07-26T08:54:31Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Bert Douglas","Steven Grimm"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"48674","messageId":"46A8519D.5050801@tplogic.com","threadId":"9237","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"rename directory weirdness","fromName":"Bert Douglas","fromEmail":"bertd@tplogic.com","sentAt":"2007-07-26T07:47:41Z","receivedAt":"2007-07-26T07:47:41Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"bertd@tplogic.com","avatar":null},"body":"I am new user.  Trying to understand git.\n\nI renamed a directory.\n$ mv dir1 dir2\n$ git add dir2\n$ git commit -a\n\nIt popped up my editor with long list of files that it recognized as \n'renamed'.\nBut one file it listed as 'copied' and further down as 'deleted'.\n\nWhy this one file out of thousands not recognized as 'renamed' ?\nIs this a sign of a problem ?\n\nThanks again for all help.\n"},{"id":"48681","messageId":"46A86147.4010403@midwinter.com","threadId":"9237","inReplyTo":"46A8519D.5050801@tplogic.com","subject":"Re: rename directory weirdness","fromName":"Steven Grimm","fromEmail":"koreth@midwinter.com","sentAt":"2007-07-26T08:54:31Z","receivedAt":"2007-07-26T08:54:31Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"koreth@midwinter.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/71b4d2e8b62f168bdc9e9205341159e3567003b4f9e2127c617c5fa0a1f5bad2?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Bert Douglas wrote:\n> $ mv dir1 dir2\n> $ git add dir2\n> $ git commit -a\n>\n> It popped up my editor with long list of files that it recognized as \n> 'renamed'.\n> But one file it listed as 'copied' and further down as 'deleted'.\n>\n> Why this one file out of thousands not recognized as 'renamed' ?\n> Is this a sign of a problem ?\n\nAre the contents of the file in question identical to those of some \nother file in your directory tree? I've seen that happen too. There were \nsome proposed improvements to address this last time it came up on the \nlist, but I'm not sure if any of them actually made it into the code base.\n\n-Steve\n"}]}