From: Aaron Gray <angray@beeb.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:32:01 GMT
Subject: Re: renaming question
Message-ID: <03b401c7e28f$3c7304c0$0600a8c0@ze4427wm>
In-Reply-To: <87vebbo0f1.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>

>* Aaron Gray:
>
>> I have a very large C source project that I am converting from C to C++.
>>
>> Is it posssible to track changes with renamed files in GIT ?
>
> You don't need to rename the files if you compile them using g++.  If
> you still want to rename them, most history-related GIT commands
> accept an -M switch which enables rename ("move") detection.

For sanity they have to be renamed.

I am a bit of a GIT newbie. With the -M switch what would be the proceedure 
with a single file conversion such as with test.c and test.cpp ?

Would the following do the trick ?

    git add test.c
    git commit

    rename test.c test.cpp *
    vi test.cpp

    git rm test.c
    git add test.cpp
    git commit -M

Many thanks in advance,

Aaron