RE: Feature request: git cp

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rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>

Date

Nov 21, 2025, 00:10 UTC

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On November 20, 2025 6:08 PM, Lucas Seiki wrote:

>> and would like the history to track the relevant lines in each file,
>> like "git mv" does,
>
>As a consequence of Git being based on snapshots instead of deltas (see

[1]), `git

>mv` actually doesn't keep track of renames. You can think of `git mv` as

`git rm`ing

>the file with the old name + `git add`ing the same file with the the new

name.

>
>As Kristoffer said, the renames are detected by tools like `git log`, `git

diff` or `git

>status` based on similarity between files, which are considered a rename if

they are

>similar enough. That similarity can even be tuned by using the flag

--find-renames,

>available in those three commands.
>
>
>[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-What-is-Git%3F